Serena Williams has given birth to a baby girl, she posted on Instagram, almost exactly a year after her last match as a tennis s♔tar.
Serena W🍬illiams has given birth to aꦚ baby girl, she posted on Instagram, almost exactly a year after her last match as a tennis star.
Serena Williams has given birth to a baby girl, she posted on Instagram, almost exactly a year after her last match as a tennis s♔tar.
Adira River Ohanian is the second child — and second daughter — for the 41-year-old Williams and her husband, Reddit co-fou🅘nder Alexis Ohanian. Their first, Olympia, wa𝔉s born in 2017.
ꦅWilliams, who won 23 Grand Slam singles titles during a career that transcended her sport, re♉vealed at the Met Gala in May that she was pregnant.
When she told the world in August 2022 she was preparing to close her playing career, Williams cited a de🐻sire to grow her family as one of the main reasons for walking away from tennis.
“Believe me,” Williams wrote l🍃ast year in an essay for Vogue magazine, “I never wanted to have to choose between tennis and a family. I don't think it's fair. If I were a guy I wouldn't be writing this because I'd be out there playing and winning while my wife was doing the physical labor of expanding our family.”
The 2022 U.S. Open was her last tournament. She reached the third ro♎und in New York by beating second-seeded Anett Kontaveit before losing t⛎o Ajla Tomljanovic on Sept. 3.