Serving up romance! Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian fell head over heels for each other in 2015 — and so they’ve been getting stronger ever since.
The skilled tennis participant and the tech entrepreneur met by likelihood whereas staying on the similar resort in Rome. “This man comes and he simply plops down on the desk subsequent to us and I’m like, ‘Huh! All these tables and he’s sitting right here?’” Williams advised Vainness Truthful in 2017 of her first interplay along with her now-husband by the resort pool.
Ohanian joined the Michigan native for breakfast that morning and ended up scoring an invite to her match on the Italian Open. In December 2016, simply over a yr after they ran into one another, Ohanian proposed to Williams on the similar resort that sparked their romance.
“I got here residence a bit of late. Somebody had a bag packed for me and a carriage awaited. Vacation spot: Rome, to escort me to my very personal ‘charming.’ Again to the place our stars first collided,” the S by Serena founder penned in a candy Reddit poem asserting her engagement. “And now it was full circle. On the similar desk we first met by likelihood. This time he made it not by likelihood, however by alternative. Down on one knee, he mentioned 4 phrases and I mentioned sure.”
Earlier than they may change their vows, the couple hit one other main milestone of their relationship: their first baby. The athlete unintentionally revealed her being pregnant through Snapchat in April 2017 and 5 months later, gave beginning to daughter Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr.
Regardless of her difficult supply, her accomplice was proper there by her facet. They tied the knot in New Orleans in November 2017 in entrance of friends together with Beyoncé and Kim Kardashian.
Two years later, Williams gushed about her husband’s potential to let her shine. “Alexis doesn’t dim my gentle,” she advised Attract in January 2019. “He doesn’t attempt to dim my gentle. He places me within the gentle, even when I don’t wish to be. He pushes me to additional factors I by no means considered.”
She admitted that she seen her “gentle can be dimmer” in previous relationships — however not with the Reddit founder. “Now I really feel like I can shine actually vibrant and nonetheless do the whole lot that I wish to do,” she mentioned on the time.
Ohanian doesn’t thoughts being referred to as Mr. Serena Williams. “I’ll be a self-made billionaire at some point and most of the people will nonetheless know me as Serena’s husband (or Olympia’s dad),” he wrote through Twitter in April 2021. “And that’s advantageous by me.”
Hold scrolling to relive the facility couple’s whirlwind romance:
