Serena still playing – six months pregnant

LIFE is pretty good for Serena Williams right now. She has 23 Grand Slams, is engaged after a whirlwind romance and has a baby on the way.

But her long-time coach Patrick Mouratoglou reveals there is one thing bothering her.

‘She would love to be able to play tennis and have the baby at the same time,’ he says. ‘If anyone could do it, she would be the one.’

Well, actually, she can do both. Williams may not be able to defend her Wimbledon title but she is still, at over six months pregnant, getting out on court.

‘She played yesterday … and the day before,’ says Mouratoglou. ‘In her mind she’s back as soon as she can.’

Williams announced in April that she was 20 weeks pregnant; the father is fiance Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of social media site Reddit. As people did the sums, they realised with awe that Serena had been pregnant when she won the Australian Open without dropping a set.

Even Mouratoglou didn’t know she was pregnant in Melbourne. ‘She told me just before she said it publicly, maybe one or two weeks before,’ says the Frenchman, who has coached Williams to 10 Slam titles in five years.

‘I was not so surprised because I knew it was very important to her to be a mother [but] I didn’t know it would happen then.’