Serena Williams retirement headlines are predicting that the 23-time Grand Slam singles winner would cease participating in professional tennis after the 2022 US Open, but she isn’t yet ready to announce a definite retirement date or even use the word.
Few months ago, Serena, 41, announced her retirement from tennis after Wimbledon to try for a second child with her rich husband, Alexis Ohanian, and to spend more time with their kid and, as a result, it is speculated that Serena Williams husband played a vital role in pursuing her decision regarding her retirement this year.
Who is Serena Williams husband?
Alexis Ohanian, 39, is a best-selling novelist and digital entrepreneur from the United States. In 2013, he authored the best-selling book Without Their Permission: How the Twenty-First Century Will Be Made, Not Managed.
The father-of-one was born in Brooklyn, New York City, in 1983 to an Armenian-American father and a German mother, whose family escaped the massacre.
Alexis attended Ellicot City High School before graduating from the University of Virginia with degrees in business and history in 2005 and in addition to his online businesses and writing, he is a political activist, particularly in subjects concerning the internet.
After his struggles with US politicians over proposed measures intended at cracking down on online copyright violations, he was nicknamed “Mayor of the Internet.”
how Serena and Alexis met?
In her Vanity Fair cover story in June 2017, Serena described how she met Alexis. The pair met by happenstance at the Cavalieri Hotel in Rome at breakfast. Serena was dining with friends when Alexis sat down at the table next to them. “This huge man walks in and just sits down next to us, and I’m like, ‘Huh! All these tables and he’s sitting here?'” Serena revealed to the newspaper.
Surprisingly, the gang informed Alexis there was a rat at his table in an attempt to convince him to relocate. When Alexis refused to go, Serena encouraged him to join her, and the rest, as they say, is history.
when Williams and Ohanian married?
Alexis and Serena tied the knot in December 2016. They’d been secretly dating for 15 months after meeting in Rome. The pair confirmed their engagement on their respective social media sites.
The couple also shared a photo of themselves smiling from ear to ear, with Serena displaying a magnificent gemstone in her diamond engagement ring.
Ohanian was also spotted cheering on his future wife during the Australian Open and the Reddit entrepreneur cheered and seemed as happy as punch as his wife-to-be defeated opponent Belinda Bencic in straight sets.
Finally, Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian got married on November 16, 2017 in the United States.
Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian relationship timeline
The love story of Serena Williams and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian began like most do: by happenstance. Alexis didn’t know anything about tennis, and Serena wasn’t on Reddit, but it was a match made in heaven. From their A-list wedding in New Orleans to the birth of their daughter, here’s everything you need to know about the tennis star and entrepreneur’s romance.
-Alexis Ohanian and Serena Williams met in Rome in 2015 while staying at the same hotel.
-Alexis proposed to Serena in December 2016 in the location where they first met, and the couple found out they were pregnant a month later.
-On September 1, 2017, they welcomed a daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr.
-The pair married in New Orleans on November 16, 2017.
Do couples have kids together?
Yes. Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian are the proud parent of a lovely daughter named Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr, the couple’s first child who was born on September 1, 2017.
In mid-April 2017, the tennis icon confirmed she was 22 weeks pregnant and the baby’s due date was set for the end of August or the beginning of September, and the actress went into labor on September 1.
The same day, she gave birth to a baby girl, and America’s WPBF-25 news producer Chris Shepherd tweeted that mother and child were “doing well.”
On September 13, the tennis pro announced that she and her partner Alexis Ohanian had given birth to a daughter, whom they called Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr.
Not only is she called after her father, but her initials (AO) also refer to Serena’s 2017 Australian Open victory while pregnant.
what does Serena’s husband do for a living?
Alexis Ohanian is best known for co-founding the social news website Reddit. The 6ft 5in investor founded the now-global brand at the age of 22 with business partner and fellow Virginia graduate Steve Huffman, and it was formally launched on June 23, 2005.
The website grew in popularity and was eventually purchased by publishing behemoth Conde Nast, publisher of Wired, GQ, and Vogue magazines, in 2006.
what is Serena Williams’s husband net worth?
Ohanian’s Reddit was recently appraised at £407 million and is regarded as the ninth largest site in the United States and Alexis, who was still a member of the site’s board of directors, was determined not to rest on his laurels.
In 2007, Serena’s husband founded the social company Breadpig, and in 2010, he helped build the travel search engine Hipmunk, before co-founding the early stage venture financing firm Initialized Capital the same year.
As a successful business personality, Ohanian’s net worth is estimated to be $70 million (£50 million) according to Forbes.
who Alexis Ohanian ditched to get along with serena?
Alexis Ohanian and Serena Williams made history after becoming a couple in 2015, and people often called them a proper example of a “power couple” because of their dominance in relevant professional fields.
Despite meeting in Italy for the first time, both Ohanian and Serena were originally from the USA, and some people speculate that they might have had communication before the Rome incident.
Furthermore, following Serena’s outburst at the US Open, in which she branded the umpire a “thief” and a “fraud,” the Herald-Sun tabloid produced a caricature of her depicting Serena Williams as an angry infant with exaggerated features, which sparked outrage, with many labeling it racist and again, the article was reprinted in the publication, and Alexis Ohanian described it as “blatantly racist and sexist.”
