Tennis great Serena Williams has given birth to her second child, a girl named Adira River Ohanian.
Along with husband Alexis Ohanian, she welcomed the new arrival in social media posts on Tuesday.
“Welcome my beautiful angel,” Williams wrote in the caption of a video posted on TikTok.
The video shows her, Ohanian and their four-year-old daughter Olympia embracing the new-born.
“I’m grateful to report our house is teeming with love: a happy and healthy new-born girl and happy and healthy mama. Feeling grateful,” Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian, posted on Instagram alongside a photograph of himself with a beaming Williams hugging both her daughters.
Addressing his 41-year-old wife, he told her she had “given me another incomparable gift – you’re the GMOAT,” a new maternal twist on the sporting accolade Greatest Of All Time.
The 23-time Grand Slam champion, who said she was “evolving away” from tennis after last year’s U.S. Open, had confirmed news of her pregnancy in May.
That was on the red carpet of the Met Gala in New York.
The announcement of baby number two has now made a return to competitive tennis to appear highly unlikely for 41-year-old Williams.
In 2017, Williams, one of the greatest players in history, won the Australian Open – one of her many Grand Slam titles – while she was pregnant with the couple’s first child, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr.
But months later she nearly died after she developed a blood clot in her lung after giving birth to Olympia via emergency C-section.
She spent six weeks bedridden after the pulmonary embolism, but battled back to make her return to competition just five months later in Fed Cup doubles alongside her sister, Venus.
Williams retired from tennis last year after becoming a superstar for a generation.
“I’m ready to be a mom and explore a different version of myself,” she said after her final match last year.
She is one of the most decorated athletes ever to pick up a racket.
