During an interview with Eurosports at the French Open, Venus Williams referred to little sister Serena’s unborn child as “she.” That had all of us thinking that, as many stars do, she had slipped up and revealed the gender of her niece. However, Serena Williams is now saying that despite what Venus said, her sisters don’t know what she is having and neither does she. It’s all going to be a surprise.
Instead, when she wants something from her sisters, she names the baby after them and does the same when speaking to her husband-to-be, Alexis, and her father.
As Serena put it, “I think the surprise of knowing what you are going to have on that very special day you give birth is prob the best surprise you can ever have! To clarify what Venus said, I am always joking with my sisters to see what favors I can get them to do do [sic] for me next. If I want something from one of my sisters I say baby Venus baby Lyn, or Baby Isha needs it. I did not grow up with any brothers, only sisters and we all say ‘she’ more than ‘he.'”
We’ll see though. Venus did sound pretty confident in what she was saying.
“She’s going to call me ‘favorite aunt,'” Venus said during the interview. “We’re all like, ‘Baby V, baby Lyn, baby Isha.’ We all want the baby to be named after us.”
Serena, who is now more than six months pregnant, was present when Venus was talking about the baby, but was sitting in the stands and couldn’t hear the interview. While she obviously can’t play right now, Serena was present at the Stade Roland-Garros in Paris to cheer her big sister on during the tennis tournament. Venus ended up winning her match, beating Japan’s Kurumi Nara 6-3, 6-1 in the second round. But it was the intel on baby Ohanian that made the news and had people talking. Venus is set to play Belgian tennis star Elise Mertens tomorrow.
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