Things You Need To Know About Serena Williams As She Becomes A Mother

– She has just welcomed her first child, a girl into the world.
– The father is her fiance, a Reddit tech entrepreneur, Alexis Ohanian.
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Serena and her fiance

Award winning tennis player, Serena Williams could not compete in Wimbledon this year because she was expecting her first child which she has now given birth to.

The 23 grand slam titles winner broke the internet in mid-April when she revealed that she was 20 weeks pregnant. She went into labor and gave birth to a girl on the 1st of September.

Her full name and age
Her full name is Serena Jameka Williams and she was born on the 26th of September, 1981 which makes her 36 years old.

Her family
She was born in Saginaw, Michigan to Richard Williams and Oracene Price. She is the youngest of their five daughters.

It should be noted that one of her sisters, Venus Williams is also a Tennis legend. copyright.

Her fiancé and father of her child
Alexis, a tech entrepreneur who is the co-founder of Reddit and Serena met in Rome and secretly dated for 15 months. They got engaged in December last year and they just had their first baby together.

Reddit, his social news website which is considered to be the seventh biggest site in the US was recently valued at £407 million.

Alexis is also an author who wrote and published a book in 2013, Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will be Made, Not Managed.

Her history with Tennis
She started playing Tennis at the tender age of 4. Her parents stopped sending she and her sisters to national tennis tournaments when Serena was 10 because he wanted them to focus on school. Another reason was because of racism as he had heard white parents talk about his daughters negatively during tournaments.

They have never voted
This is because the William family are Jehovah’s Witnesses and the church has a practice of not voting.

Her rank
The women’s Tennis Association has ranked her the number one Tennis player in the world in women’s singles tennis six times.

It should be noted that she became the oldest world no.1 player on WTA’s history on the 18th of February, 2013 after she won the award again, and she is also the Olympic ladies singles champion, the reigning French Open, US Open, and WTA Tour Championships.

Her line
She has a line with Nike and then in 2009, she launched a signature collection of jewelry and handbags which she called Aneres which are the letters of her name spelt backwards.

Professional career with her sister
Serena and her sister, Venus have met in eight Grand Slam finals where Serena won six of them. She has played Venus since 1998 in 24 professional matches and overall, she is 14-10 against her.                      Source: Naijapr.com