--- title: Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian Welcome Their Daughter description: Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian shared the sweetest tributes to their baby canonical: https://time.com/4937206/serena-williams-daughter-photo/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-13T14:39:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-08T09:51:12.578Z og:title: Meet Serena Williams' Adorable Baby Daughter in Heartwarming Photo og:description: Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian shared the sweetest tributes to their baby og:url: https://time.com/4937206/serena-williams-daughter-photo/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt486be5455adfe9ee/6988dc47656a3f422cbd1895/gettyimages-632902622.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4113 og:image:height: 2314 og:image:alt: Australian Open 2017 - Women's Champion Photocall og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Meet Serena Williams' Adorable Baby Daughter in Heartwarming Photo twitter:description: Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian shared the sweetest tributes to their baby twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt486be5455adfe9ee/6988dc47656a3f422cbd1895/gettyimages-632902622.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Serena Williams Would Like to Introduce the Internet to Her Baby Daughter > Sponsored content. 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Serena Williams is the FIRST tennis player to win 23 Grand Slam singles titles in the Open era._ by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Sep 13, 2017 2:39 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Sep 13, 2017 2:39 PM UTC Tennis superstar [Serena Williams](http://motto.time.com/4925648/serena-williams-tennis/?iid=sr-link1) missed the U.S. Open this week, but still managed to win big. Williams [gave birth](http://time.com/4925755/serena-williams-gave-birth-venus-excited/?iid=sr-link4) to her daughter with Reddit co-founder and fiancé Alexis Ohanian. Now, Williams has shared the first photo of the baby girl on Instagram and she is cuter than any Wimbledon trophy or Australian Open title. While Williams’s sister, Venus, accidentally [spilled the beans](http://motto.time.com/4800081/serena-williams-having-baby-girl/?iid=sr-link3) on the child’s gender back in May, Williams’s Instagram post revealed the baby’s name and it may sound vaguely familiar. Williams and Ohanian decided to name their daughter after her father, calling her Alexis Olympia Ohanian, Jr. Williams announced her pregnancy [on Snapchat](http://motto.time.com/4746545/serena-williams-announces-pregnancy-snapchat/?iid=sr-link2), so the fact that she shared her birth and some early photos of her daughter on Instagram Stories isn’t that surprising. Not to be outdone, Ohanian _Sr_. put together an incredibly sweet tribute to his daughter, documenting her journey from ultrasound pictures to Instagram ones in a heartwarming YouTube video. It’s clear that the family is very excited about their new addition. ## Transcript People will look at you and they'll try and define you. Whether you're a woman, whether you're young, they'll try and cabin off what you're able to do. But people can only do that if you let them and so I always viewed my job as defining myself >> If we are in a meeting we're there for a reason, not to just sit there and absorb. If you are only there not speaking you kind of create the impression that you're not prepared to be there. You need to participate and you need to know what you're talking about. You can ask a man to do a job that he's never been qualified to do and he will raise his hand and say, absolutely, I will do that job. Women always say, I'm not sure if I'm ready yet, More experience. I don't necessarily know if there's anything wrong with being more cautious and careful. I mean why have we come to decide that being brash and overly aggressive should be the way we are. But we should also know that we're not going to feel any wiser or any more ready in ten years than we did ten years ago. So we might as well just leave. There is a lot of perception of, My gosh, it's really hard because of the gender. What are you gonna do about that, just not do it? If you want to do something, you just do it, and then hope that people catch up to you. For girls that are going to be playing little league, anything could happen. You could be up by 10 runs, and you can loose the game. So stay focused, make sure you play as a team, and hopefully you hit a home run, because no girl has ever hit a home run, and I'll be cheering for you. You'll never make everyone happy, so you just have to be exactly who it is that you are, and at least know that you've been true to yourself. It's about attitude, aptitude, and opportunity. Who knew I would be here? But it all started with folks that thought I had a good attitude. That put me in places that challenged me and then provided me opportunities because I met and exceeded the standard. You often don't realize, people want you to succeed, and they often have very good solutions, both practical and in terms of thinking of opportunities for you. And the other thing is, I think it's not too bad Periods of great intensity doing one thing or the other. Meryl Streep once said, " Every successful woman's life has its ebbs and flows ." Know your power, know the power of your intellect, of your values and commitment, the courage that you have, and don't let anybody trivialize How you have spent your years. All of them have contributed to making a very unique and special person. Just take joy, don't let anyone discourage you from that thing that you love the most. It's more about making life. 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