--- title: Wimbledon: Drake, Billie Jean King Hang Out at Tennis Tournament description: Rap superstar Drake was seen hanging out with tennis legend Billie Jean King at Wimbledon canonical: https://time.com/3948334/wimbledon-drake-billie-jean-king/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-07T21:24:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:47:17.902Z og:title: If Drake and Billie Jean King Were Besties Who Text og:description: The rap superstar was seen hanging out with the tennis legend at Wimbledon og:url: https://time.com/3948334/wimbledon-drake-billie-jean-king/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: If Drake and Billie Jean King Were Besties Who Text twitter:description: The rap superstar was seen hanging out with the tennis legend at Wimbledon twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # If Drake and Billie Jean King Were Besties Who Text by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jul 7, 2015 9:24 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jul 7, 2015 9:24 PM UTC Drake snagged a seat at Wimbledon’s Serena Williams/Venus Williams [match](http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/tennis/33413926) on Monday — and he also, apparently, snagged the opportunity to hang out with living tennis legend Billie Jean King: > [](https://twitter.com/BillieJeanKing/status/618435809658540032) First, take a moment to appreciate how good this photo is. But then, we invite you to note that Ms. King is not saying that it was nice to _meet_ Drake. She is saying it was fun to _catch up_ with Drake. This seems to imply that they are old pals who were just chummin’ it up together at Wimbledon. This was just them catching up _in person_, but they obviously text each other on the reg. What do this 28-year-old Canadian rapper and this 71-year-old tennis legend talk about? Sadly, we’ll never know for sure, but we imagine it might go something like this:  ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3948334/wimbledon-drake-billie-jean-king/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3948334/wimbledon-drake-billie-jean-king/"},"headline":"If Drake and Billie Jean King Were Besties Who Text","datePublished":"2015-07-07T21:24:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:47:17.902Z","description":"Rap superstar Drake was seen hanging out with tennis legend Billie Jean King at Wimbledon","url":"https://time.com/3948334/wimbledon-drake-billie-jean-king/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3948334/wimbledon-drake-billie-jean-king/","name":"If Drake and Billie Jean King Were Besties Who Text"}}]}] ```