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On Aug. 29, Serena Williams won the first round of her final U.S. Open before retirement, but the true star of the show was her 4-year-old daughter Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr., who hammed it up for the crowd.
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Olympia twinned with her mom at the U.S. Open, wearing the same black, sparkling Nike dress that Williams donned on the tennis court. Olympia’s white hair beads were also a tribute to her mother, who wore similar beads when she won her first U.S. Open in 1999.
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The last time that Williams won a Grand Slam singles title in 2017, at the Australian Open, she was eight weeks pregnant with Ohanian Jr. More than five years later, her daughter is now watching her compete for her final championship title.
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Alexis Ohanian, who married Williams in November 2017, kept Olympia company.
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Williams announced her “evolution” away from tennis is an essay for Vogue on Aug. 9, in part to give her daughter the siblings she has asked for. “I’m the youngest of five sisters myself, and my sisters are my heroes, so this has felt like a moment I need to listen very carefully to,” she wrote.