Serena Williams longs to tell her daughter how she bound her longtime label, champion, with her newer one, mother. She’s one match from making that happen, 10 months after childbirth.
Williams, a 23-time Grand Slam singles winner and seven times at Wimbledon, advanced to Saturday’s Wimbledon final with a 6-2, 6-4 win over German Julia Görges on Thursday.
“Walking to the mailbox was a painful, exhausting challenge for this woman just 9 months ago,” Williams’ husband, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, tweeted Tuesday, referencing Williams’ pulmonary embolism after giving birth, which left her bedridden for six weeks.