Serena Williams shares a sweet photo of daughter Olympia, three, who seems to be following in the footsteps of her tennis star mom
Serena Williams shared an Instagram photo on Tuesday of her three-year-old daughter Olympia following in her footsteps.
The new picture showed the toddler swinging a racket as mom stood in the background with a mask on.
‘Turn, back, reach, head, follow through,’ Serena, who has become a legend on the tennis court, wrote in her caption.
‘Follow through’: Serena Williams shared an Instagram snap Tuesday of her three-year-old daughter Olympia following in her footsteps
She shares her little daughter with her husband Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit, whom she married in 2017 in New Orleans.
In October of last year Serena revealed on Insta Stories that little Olympia has been signed up for tennis lessons herself.
However she was to be instructed by neither her mother nor by her aunt Venus Williams, who is also an internationally renowned tennis star.
Baby mine: Serena is pictured holding Olympia in January 2020 at the Auckland Classic tennis tournament after defeating Jessica Pegula
In fact Serena shared that the teacher they have chosen at that point had ‘no idea’ that her new pupil is the daughter of a world-famous athlete.
She also said she would leave the lessons immediately after dropping Olympia off so as not to be an ‘overprotective’ or ‘distracting’ influence.
Serena’s latest post comes a few days after Alexis leaped onto Twitter to slam Romanian billionaire Ion Tiriac for criticizing her.
Ion, who used to be a tennis player and is now president of the Romanian Tennis Federation, made the remarks on TV in his native country.
Baby mine: She shares her little daughter with her husband Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit, whom she married in 2017 in New Orleans
‘At this age and the weight she is now, she does not move as easily as she did 15 years ago,’ said Ion, adding that she ‘was a sensational player. If she had a little decency, she would retire.’
In response Alexis tweeted a screen-grab of a Google result showing Ion had no Grand Slam singles titles and taunted him: ‘Had to Google it… turns out my 3 year old has more Grand Slam victories than this.’
Alexis, whose wife has 23 Grand Slam singles titles, wrote: ‘2021 and no holding back when a racist/sexist clown with a platform comes for my family.’
Ion did win one grand slam in men’s doubles at the 1970 French Open and as of 2019 was the third-richest businessman in Romania, Forbes reported.
Hiccup: Last September Serena had to withdraw from the French Open as she was still recovering from an injury to her left Achilles tendon; pictured at French Open pre-withdrawal
He himself retired from tennis in 1979, the year he turned 40, which is the same age Serena will turn in September of this year.
Last September Serena had to withdraw from the French Open as she was still recovering from an injury to her left Achilles tendon.
However next month she is slated to play in the Australian Open in which she has won a record seven victories, most recently in 2017.