--- title: Serena Williams Husband Gets Attention for Supporting Her description: At the 2018 U.S. Open, Alexis Ohanian is continuing to prove that he's Serena Williams's biggest champion — in the sweetest way. canonical: https://time.com/5380155/alexis-ohanian-serena-williams-us-open/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-08-28T15:11:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:54:33.285Z og:title: Alexis Ohanian Adds to Proof He's Serena Williams's Best Fan og:description: Good luck finding someone who looks at you like Ohanian looks at Williams og:url: https://time.com/5380155/alexis-ohanian-serena-williams-us-open/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Alexis Ohanian Adds to Proof He's Serena Williams's Best Fan twitter:description: Good luck finding someone who looks at you like Ohanian looks at Williams twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Good Luck Finding Someone Who Looks at You Like Alexis Ohanian Looks at Victorious Serena Williams ## Video: FIRSTS Serena Williams [Watch (HLS stream): FIRSTS Serena Williams](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/qRrT89Xb.m3u8) (2:06)  _Published 2017-09-02. Serena Williams is the FIRST tennis player to win 23 Grand Slam singles titles in the Open era._  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Aug 28, 2018 3:11 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Aug 28, 2018 3:11 PM UTC As her husband [Alexis Ohanian](http://time.com/5339647/alexis-ohanian-on-serena-williams-wimbledon/) puts it, tennis star [Serena Williams](http://time.com/5368858/serena-williams-comeback/) had a “great first day back at the \[New York\] office” this week as she kicked off her return to the tennis courts with a winning round against Poland’s Magda Linette at the 2018 U.S. Open on Sunday. We know the Reddit co-founder and father of baby [Alexis, Jr.](http://time.com/4940076/alexis-ohanian-reddit-cartoon/) is a supportive husband [already](http://time.com/5177565/alexis-ohanian-serena-williams-billboards/), of course. But it doesn’t hurt that his appearance at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center to watch Williams play just added to the evidence, giving us more fuel to respect his commitment to seeing his wife succeed. Case in point: an adoring photo of Ohanian spectating on the match that has been making the Twitter rounds. After fans began circulating the image, Ohanian himself retweeted it — because sometimes a photo really is worth a thousand words (or, in the case of Twitter, 280 characters). > [](https://twitter.com/alexisohanian/status/1034252172496650240) > [](https://twitter.com/alexisohanian/status/1034279121419943939) Ohanian will have more chances to cheer Williams on this week; [on Wednesday,](https://www.google.com/search?q=US+Open&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgVuLVT9c3NMxIrjLJMow3mcDCCACJDlKKFAAAAA) she plays Germany’s Carina Witthöft in the Round of 64\. This is Williams’s first time back to the U.S. Open competition [since 2016](https://www.si.com/tennis/2018/08/27/serena-williams-us-open-return-magda-linette), after which she gave birth to her daughter. At this summer’s Wimbledon tournament, she finished second behind [Angelique Kerber](http://time.com/5339617/serena-williams-on-wimbledon-final/). There’s a chance Serena could also go on to play her big sister [Venus Williams](http://time.com/5318227/time-with-venus-williams/) during this year’s competition, too. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5380155/alexis-ohanian-serena-williams-us-open/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5380155/alexis-ohanian-serena-williams-us-open/"},"headline":"Good Luck Finding Someone Who Looks at You Like Alexis Ohanian Looks at Victorious Serena Williams","datePublished":"2018-08-28T15:11:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:54:33.285Z","description":"Serena Williams handily won her first round at the U.S. Open","url":"https://time.com/5380155/alexis-ohanian-serena-williams-us-open/","keywords":["Newsfeed","serena williams","Sports"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5380155/alexis-ohanian-serena-williams-us-open/","name":"Good Luck Finding Someone Who Looks at You Like Alexis Ohanian Looks at Victorious Serena Williams"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"FIRSTS Serena Williams","description":"Serena Williams is the FIRST tennis player to win 23 Grand Slam singles titles in the Open era.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/qRrT89Xb/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-09-02T02:57:12.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/qRrT89Xb.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5380155/alexis-ohanian-serena-williams-us-open/","duration":"PT2M6S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5380155/alexis-ohanian-serena-williams-us-open/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```