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NEW YORK. — Tennis legend Serena Williams confirmed she is pregnant with her second child at the Met Gala on Monday night.
The 23-time Grand Slam singles champion told reporters at the New York fashion show there were “three of us” on the red carpet when she arrived with her husband Alexis Ohanian.
The couple welcomed their first daughter, Olympia, in October 2017.
Williams wrote in Vogue magazine last year that she wanted to move away from tennis and focus on growing her family.
The Met Gala is an annual invitation-only fundraiser for the Costume Institute, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
In a TikTok post on Monday, Williams said she was “so excited when Anna Wintour invited the 3 of us to the Met Gala”.
Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour is the chair of the evening, and a close friend of Williams, who is a frequent attendee of the annual event.
Williams’ fellow tennis champion, Roger Federer, was also present at the event. The Swiss co-chaired the evening alongside Wintour and Grammy-winning songstress Dua Lipa, actress Penélope Cruz and writer, actor and producer Michaela Coel.
Model Karlie Kloss also confirmed her second pregnancy at the event.
Meanwhile, world number one Novak Djokovic will be able to play at this year’s US Open tournament after the United States confirmed international travellers will no longer need to be vaccinated against Covid-19.
The 22-time Grand Slam winner, 35, was forced to miss last year’s tournament because of his vaccination status.
He also missed the past two Masters events in Indian Wells and Miami.
But US policy will change on May 12, allowing Serb Djokovic to return to Flushing Meadows in August.
“Today, we are announcing that the Administration will end the Covid-19 vaccine requirements for Federal employees, Federal contractors, and international air travellers at the end of the day on May 11, the same day that the Covid-19 public health emergency ends,” the White House said in a statement.
Despite applying for special permission to enter the United States, Djokovic withdrew from Indian Wells in March because he was still unable to enter the country.
He won the Australian Open in January, a year after he was deported from the country on the eve of the 2022 tournament because he had not been vaccinated. — BBC Sport
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