Serena Williams is undoubtedly a proud mom to her daughter Olympia Ohanian, who she had with husband Alexis Ohanian in 2017, and never shies away from sharing sweet photos and videos of the two.
Still, when her daughter isn’t with her, she’s not always keen on people knowing that the four-year-old’s mom is one of the world’s most famous and successful tennis stars.
The athlete recently appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show to share the sneaky tactic she used when she wanted her daughter to learn tennis, but wasn’t willing to teach her herself.
First, she hilariously explained why, as a professional tennis player, she wouldn’t teach her own daughter to play.
She confessed to Ellen: “I don’t have the patience to teach tennis. It’s so weird but I don’t really like to play with people who don’t know how to play tennis well… it drives me nuts.”
The discussion was prompted by the show’s host, when she told the star, speaking of Olympia: “So you enrolled her in tennis classes with a coach, but you did not tell the coach that you were the mother of that child. That is just cruel,” she joked, as Serena and the audience fell into a fit of laughter.
