Serena Williams’ husband has admitted he hated tennis before he met his wife.
Alexis Ohanian has been married to Williams since 2017 and the happy couple have daughter Alexis Olympia together.
Ohanian and Alexis are often spotted courtside cheering on Williams, with fans gushing over the couple’s romance.
However Ohanian recently revealed how you would never have seen him at a tennis match before he met his 23-time grand slam champion wife.
“I hated tennis for a long time, until I met my wife and tried to learn it,” the Reddit co-founder told CNN recently.
“I am always a sports fan and when I watched a final closely I understood the privilege I had.
“Now I appreciate the world of tennis, I understand how the world of tennis is a difficult and intense world.
“In the world of technology we work very and really hard, but we have been naive since the work done by a professional tennis player, both physically and mentally, is absolutely on another level.”
Ohanian said it’s a privilege to be able to take his daughter and get a front-row seat to see his wife do her thing.
“I sat in the front row to see everything Serena does, to understand her role in the world and I discovered how different she is from others,” he said.
“I know how much she has worked for everything, not only as a woman but also as a black woman.
“At the same time Olympia will never question all the great work her mother has done and one day I will explain it to her, but I want to make her understand that I do my part too.”
