Williams is the second high-profile tennis player to announce that they are pregnant as her rival, former world number one and two-time Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka announced last July, that she was pregnant and she gave birth to her son Leo in December. "I'm happy to confirm Serena is expecting a baby this fall", Williams' spokesperson told CNN in a statement.
Her representative also confirmed to Reuters that Williams would not be playing any professional tennis for the remainder of this year but that she's looking forward to returning to the game in 2018. If she is 20 weeks pregnant, this simply means that she was pregnant at the time she won the Australian Open back in January.
This will be her first child with fiancé and co-founder of Reddit, Alexis Ohanian. Serena Williams has not played any match after her title win at the Australian Open. This makes her the third women to win a Grand Slam after Margaret Court and Evonne Goolagong, who won Wimbledon in 1971 and 1980 respectively, while being pregnant. She had also skipped two Women's Tennis Association tournaments at Indian Wells and Miami purportedly over a knee problem.
The American is likely to spend an entire grand-slam cycle - if not longer - away from the court, so Omnisport's Matthew Scott looks at who is best-placed to fill her mighty shoes as top dog.
After deleting the Snapchat post, there was speculation as to whether Williams was just playing with fans - even as good wishes flowed in from fellow celebrities and US Open Tennis.
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Serena Williams has been championing the world tennis from 2002 and six years in total duration of her career.
Fans, nonetheless, congratulated Williams on her baby news, and lauded her capabilities as the "Greatest Player of All Time". A photograph on her Snapchat story showed Williams posing sideways in a yellow bathing suit with a protruding stomach.
Serena, who first met the 33-year-old entrepreneur in 2015, revealed her family plans last year, telling America's Glamour magazine, "I definitely want to have kids one day".
"We have not been informed, nor do we have confirmation". She won her first Grand Slam singles title at age 17 in 1999 and has spent more than 300 weeks at No. 1.
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