Tennis superstar, Serena Williams has announced the arrival of her second daughter with husband Alexis Ohanian as she shared the first glimpse of her newborn in a video with her family on Tuesday night.
In the post which she captioned ‘Welcome my beautiful angel,’ Williams posted the video on TikTok that shows her, Ohanian and their four-year-old daughter Olympia embracing the newborn.
‘I’m grateful to report our house is teaming with love: a happy & healthy newborn girl and happy & healthy mama. Feeling grateful,’ her husband Ohanian also posted on X, formerly known as Twitter.
The baby’s full name is Adira River Ohanian – a Hebrew name which means ‘strong, noble, powerful’
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Serena Williams had shared the announcement that she had become pregnant for the second time just before the Met Gala in May.
Africa Today News, New York recalls that the tennis player and her spouse first met when they ran into each other at a hotel in Rome in May of 2015, and they began dating not long afterward.
They became engaged in December of 2016, and they welcomed daughter Olympia the following September.
In the video, Serena is seen looking radiant in a pink dress in honour of her new daughter as she walks over to Alexis and kisses him.
Olympia, also in pink, walks over to join her parents, who kiss her, before Serena indicates she has forgotten something.
The star then walks back into frame cradling the couple’s newborn daughter as the family celebrate their second child.
In another report, the President of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) Luis Rubiales has finally tendered an apology for kissing star player Jenni Hermoso on the lips after Spain won the Women’s World Cup on Sunday.
Africa Today News, New York reports that the 45 year old Rubiales, actually kissed Hermoso on the lips after she collected her medal, sparking an immediate global reaction.
‘Certainly I made a mistake and I have to acknowledge that,’ Rubiales said in a video posted on social media by Spanish television.
“It was done without any ill intention in a moment of the highest exuberance. Here we saw it as natural and normal but outside it has caused a commotion.”
“I have no choice but to apologise and to learn from this… and when representing the federation take more care,” he said, adding that he thought the furore was “idiotic”.
Earlier Spain’s sports minister on Monday had demanded that Rubiales apologise.