IN current time The Internet has grown into a machine that allows information to be disseminated at unprecedented speed. Another property of the Network is that nothing disappears in it. Even if, for example, Nick Kyrgios writes a tweet again and then decides to delete it, then nothing will work out for him. The print screen of this message will never leave the Internet. It was these factors that helped make one photo from Snapchat a worldwide sensation on April 19th.
On this day Serena Williams suddenly shared a photo on her Snapchat. Formally, of course, she did not announce her pregnancy. But you don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to draw the appropriate conclusion based on the appearance of your baby bump and the “20 weeks” signature. And also consider that your 23rd tournament “ Grand Slam“She won while already in position.
In the blink of an eye, all news outlets trumpeted that Serena Williams was pregnant. But at the same time, the only source remained that same photograph. Soon even the WTA sent a congratulatory tweet to the American. But after some time, Serena decided to delete the photo from Snapchat, and the WTA, in turn, had to delete the tweet with congratulations.
Serena’s motivation for deleting the post remains unclear, given that her pregnancy is already a confirmed fact. Perhaps someone on her team asked to remove this image? It was too late anyway, as she was already trending on Twitter within half an hour of posting the photo. Or did she herself not expect that there would be such a resonance? I would like to believe that at some point we will learn the details of what happened from the American herself.
20 weeks on Sharapova's 30th birthday
But now we have already received confirmation, and immediately after the removal of the picture, the Internet was seething, giving birth to one theory after another. One of the most popular ones is that Serena just decided to make a joke by taking a photo after a hearty lunch. It is clear that April 1 is already behind us, but why is the American worse than Connor McGregor, who wrote on April 19 last year that he had finished his career. If you don't know, the Irish MMA fighter's career is still far from over.
This date was also interesting because Maria Sharapova On this day she celebrated her 30th birthday. However, the American successfully drew all the attention to herself, occupying the headlines. Williams decided to announce her pregnancy on Sharapova’s birthday – a coincidence? Decide for yourself.
Information silence lasted for several hours. Some people have already lost faith that this is true, but in the end it was not a joke. The official representative of the American Kelly Bush Novak confirmed that the youngest Williams is expecting the birth of her first child in the fall.
At least with the future father there is no mystery. He is Alexis Ohanian- American businessman of Armenian origin, one of the founders of the social news site Reddit. Serena and Alexis got engaged late last year. So far, no official wedding date has been announced.
Serena plans a comeback
Shamil Tarpishchev commented on the news shortly after the photo appeared on Snapchat: “I think that he is unlikely to return to tennis after childbirth, given her age. We, of course, have seen examples of tennis players coming back and winning Grand Slam tournaments, but not at the age of 35. Serena has an advantage in physics, but after giving birth this will go away. The speed of the ball may remain the same, but the speed of movement will become much slower. My opinion is that he will not be able to return to his level after childbirth.”
However, according to Reuters, he plans to return to the WTA in 2018. IN at the moment Victoria Azarenka preparing to return after the birth of her son. The Belarusian became a mother in December 2016, and planned her first tournament for July. If Serena follows the same schedule, she will be able to return approximately to Roland Garros 2018. Although here, of course, everything is individual. But Victoria will probably be able to give the American some advice on what awaits her.
What does Serena's pregnancy mean in tennis terms? The American will return to first place in the rankings on April 24. But, of course, she won't stay there long. At the most, she will remain the leader until the second week of May, when the points for the tournament in Rome, where she won in 2016, expire.
Considering that Angelique Kerber While she performs unconvincingly, other athletes have a chance to become a leader. The most realistic contender is Karolina Pliskova. The Czech has a chance to top the rankings already during the clay season. If we talk about longer-term prospects, then in the championship race next to Pliskova are Konta and Wozniacki. It’s too early to talk about their chances for first place, but taking into account Serena’s maternity leave, this opens up more opportunities for other tennis players in terms of gaining points at the Slams.
As for Serena’s prospects after giving birth, everything will depend on her. If she still loves tennis, she will find the motivation at 36 to return to the court and continue her career as a tennis mom.
Serena Williams joins the list of stars who have posed nude for magazine covers while pregnant. The formula for the success of such shooting has long been developed - by actress Demi Moore and photographer Annie Leibovitz back in 1991. So all Serena could do was accept the rules of the “game” and repeat the cult plot.
Serena graced the August cover of Vanity Fair. The cover story will be dedicated to her relationship with her fiance Alexis Ohanian. From the meeting - in December 2015 - to the present day, when the couple spends recent months waiting for her first child.
She has an incredibly big heart. Everyone knows her as an amazing athlete, but behind all her successes lies a great kind heart. She gives all of herself to everything she does - in friendship, in love, and soon, I am sure, also in motherhood,
Alexis Ohanyan talked about Serena in one of his interviews.
Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian for Vanity Fair
Serena Williams
35-year-old Serena Williams was surprised by her unborn child, which was reported by many publications yesterday. Let us remind you that Venus Williams after the match in the framework of Open Championship France, in an interview with Eurosport, hinted that her pregnant sister would give birth to a daughter. Venus stated that each of the sisters (Serena and Venus Williams have three more half-sisters from their mother’s previous marriage - editor’s note), including Venus herself, dreams of her niece bearing her name.
She will call me favorite aunt. Every day we repeat: “Baby Isha, little Lin.” We want the child to be named after us,” Venus said.
Today, Serena stated in her Instagram diary that she and Alexis Ohanian do not know the gender of their unborn baby and want to get an answer to this question no earlier than the birth of the child. The tennis player explained her sister’s words this way:
I grew up with sisters rather than brothers, so we said “she” more often than “he.” If I want something from one of them, I usually say: “Little Isha, little Lin...”, Serena commented on the news about herself.
The world No. 1 title holder talks about her pregnancy in April. For Serena and her fiancé, Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian, the child will be their first child.
The winner of 23 Grand Slam tournaments and world number two Serena Williams made it clear why she is skipping the current season and has not yet played in a single tournament after winning the Australian Open. The American tennis player posted a photo of herself on Snapchat with a small belly and the caption: “20 weeks.” There can be no doubt - the athlete spoke about her pregnancy in this way.
Williams Jr. later deleted the photo, but it quickly spread across social networks. Previously, the tennis player stated that she did not compete at representative tournaments in Indian Wells and Miami due to a knee injury, but there were rumors in the tennis community that the 35-year-old American was pregnant. Now they can be considered confirmed.
Moreover, after some time the representative Olympic champion London's Kelly Bush Novak has officially put an end to this issue. “I’m happy to confirm that Serena is expecting a baby in the fall,” she said.
On December 29 last year, Williams announced her engagement to Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian.
Already pregnant, Serena continued to perform on WTA tournaments. In addition to winning the Australian Open, she played two matches in Auckland. The results achieved allow Williams to now occupy fourth place in the WTA championship race, according to which she is selected for final tournament year. It is interesting that next week Serena will also become the first racket of the world due to Angelique Kerber’s refusal to compete at the tournament in Stuttgart.
Organizers of the US Open, which Williams has won six times in singles, twice in doubles and once in mixed, have already congratulated one of tennis' greatest players.
Interestingly, the day before the announced news, the tournament management admitted that they were looking forward to Williams meeting Victoria Azarenka on the courts in New York. The Belarusian tennis player gave birth to her first child, whom she named Leo, on December 30 last year. A match between young mothers would become a real sensation in the world of tennis.
However, not everyone is sure that Williams will be able to return to the sport after giving birth, although, according to rumors, she expects to do this in 2018. The President of the Russian Tennis Federation, Shamil Tarpishchev, believes that the American woman’s age will make itself felt.
“I think that Serena Williams is unlikely to return to tennis after giving birth, given her age. We have, of course, seen examples of tennis players coming back and winning Grand Slam tournaments, but not at the age of 35. Serena has an advantage in physics, but after giving birth this will go away. The speed of the ball may remain the same, but the speed of movement will become much slower. My opinion is that Serena Williams will not be able to return to her level after giving birth,” Tarpishchev is quoted as saying by “Championship.”
Serena Williams was congratulated by American volleyball player Kerri Walsh Jennings. She is a mother of three herself and won Olympic gold in 2012 while five weeks pregnant.
WTA head Steve Simon also did not stand aside and conveyed his wishes to Williams: “We are very happy for Serena. This is great news and we wish her all the best. We will wait for her return to competition.”
Happy for my compatriot and Andy Roddick. He is sure that Serena will be a wonderful mother.
Chris Evert predicts a new happy life for Serena.
Internet users joke that the Williams child is already sixth in the tennis rankings - with such a mother there is no way to go lower.
Serena Williams is pregnant and the kid is already ranked number 6 in the world.
— TheFloydSpin (@thefloydspin)
Yesterday, famous tennis player Serena Williams announced her pregnancy by posting a photo on Snapchat in a swimsuit, in which her belly was clearly visible, and captioned it: “20 weeks.” While Williams and her fiancé Alexis Ohanyan accept congratulations on their upcoming new addition, HELLO.RU is looking into how this news could affect the career of 35-year-old Serena.
Serena Williams with fiance Alexis Ohanian
Williams will become a mother in early fall, and, according to her representative Kelly Bush Novak, will no longer take to the court this season - the tennis player intends to focus on her family and child. However, Serena, who currently holds the title of second racket of the world (on April 24, Williams will regain the title of first racket of the world on points, which she lost on March 20 to Angelique Kerber after the tournament in American Indian Wells), said that she plans to resume her career in 2018 year. However, tennis experts doubt that this will happen.
I think that Serena Williams is unlikely to return to tennis after giving birth, given her age. We, of course, have seen examples when tennis players came back and won Grand Slam tournaments, but not at the age of 35. Serena has an advantage in physics, but after giving birth this will go away. The speed of the ball may remain with her, but the speed of movement “It will become much slower. My opinion is that Serena Williams will not be able to return to her level after giving birth,” said Shamil Tarpishchev, president of the Russian Tennis Federation, in an interview with the Championship.
Hearts of two
With this photo, Serena announced her pregnancy at 20 weeks.
Another circumstance is no less important. Williams last competed in January this year, winning the prestigious 2017 Australian Open. At that time, the tennis player was already in her second month of pregnancy, which she could not help but guess. This fact could cause a big scandal. The fact is that pregnancy in sports is called legal doping. It is known that an “interesting situation” has more than once helped tennis players, gymnasts, skiers, and biathletes win the most important and high-profile competitions and become Olympic champions.
The point is that on early stages pregnancy, the woman’s body is rebuilt, opening new, hidden reserves, a substance called human chorionic gonadotropin begins to be produced, which acts as a growth hormone, significantly improving physical condition women, endurance and pain threshold. The expectant mother has another circle of blood circulation, the activity of the heart improves, the volume of the lungs increases, and protein accumulates. Peak physical fitness occurs in a woman at approximately 7-11 weeks of pregnancy (that is, just 2-3 months).
Knowing about these features of the female body, many coaches and doctors in the Soviet years specifically persuaded athletes to become pregnant before important competitions. What happened next was decided jointly: if a woman wanted to continue a successful career, she had an abortion (at the same time, the activity of the endocrine system was activated for another year, which made it possible to mobilize the body’s capabilities), or she went on maternity leave and devoted herself to her family. In any case, it was necessary to remain silent about pregnancy during the competition - this is not officially prohibited, but if made public, it could cause litigation from rivals: in this situation, the strength and capabilities of the expectant mother are an order of magnitude higher than the abilities of an ordinary person.
Family solution
Serena and Venus Williams at the 2017 Australian Open Serena Williams was lucky: her opponent in the final of the 2017 Australian Open was her older sister Venus, whom she beat with a score of 6:4, 6:4. She is unlikely to go to court to challenge the results of the competition. There is one more nuance here. IN last time the sisters met on the court in 2009 in the Wimbledon final. Then Russian Elena Dementieva, who suffered an unfortunate defeat from Serena in the semifinals, ironically called the outcome of the decisive match a “family decision.” The world press fanned the scandal, trying to figure out whether the sisters were playing honestly. Everyone remained unconvinced and could not prove anything, but something else is obvious: the Williams sisters are best friends, there has always been a special, very tender and trusting relationship between them. In interviews with journalists, they have repeatedly admitted that playing against each other is a real test. 
Serena and Venus Williams It is possible that Venus knew about her sister’s “interesting position” during the Australian Open 2017 and simply allowed her to win - thanks to this victory, Serena again became the first racket of the world (Venus is twelfth in the WTA rankings) and received her 23rd title at Grand Slam tournaments , having taken second place in this indicator (only Margaret Court, who has 24 victories, is ahead of her) and can now retire with a clear conscience, devoting herself to her family and her unborn child.
