Ukrainian beauty Dayana Yastremska dazzles on and off tennis court
She's allergic to grass, loves modelling and has even released some music.
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If none of the above made Dayana Yastremska interesting enough before, she also just pulled off one of the biggest tennis upsets of the calendar year.
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Yastremska defied the odds — and her apparent grass allergy — by stunning No. 2 seed American Coco Gauff in straight sets in the opening round at Wimbledon on Tuesday.
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Yastremska, who turned 25 in May, detailed her allergy after reaching the final at the Nottingham Open earlier this month, saying 'I really love playing tennis on grass, even though I think I have a bit of an allergy to grass!'
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She has amassed 217,000 followers on Instagram where she regularly posts content related to her tennis career as well as party and modelling shots.
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'I like modeling, I like fashion, I like philosophy, and I like many things to do,' she is quoted as saying in a 2024 Tennis.com article. 'But I don't have much time for it.'
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'I do not strive to become a cool artist,' she wrote in a post on Instagram in 2020. 'I just like to sing, I like this whole atmosphere. It's much easier for me on the tennis court, than being in the studio, standing near the microphone, and singing, it's such a stress for me!'
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Her music career was put on pause during a provisional doping ban in 2021 following a positive test for a prohibited substance. She was cleared six months later after an independent tribunal ruled that the positive test was due to contamination of the test sample.
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She was also forced to flee her home in February 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine. She revealed in a social media post that after two nights in an underground parking garage, her parents decided to send her and her sister out of the country.
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In February 2024, Yastremska released a new single, Hearts, which she described as a 'song for Ukraine.'
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