Serena Williams‘ husband Alexis Ohanian wooed the tennis legend on their first date when he steered the conversation to one key topic: Marvel movies.
Williams, widely considered the greatest female tennis player of all time, first met Ohanian during the 2015 Italian Open before the Reddit co-founder proposed two years later.
The couple have been married since November 2017, one month after welcoming their first child – daughter Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr. They then had a second daughter – Adira River Ohanian – last August.
In the latest installment of her ESPN+ docuseries ‘In The Arena’, both Williams and Ohanian relived their memorable first date nine years ago, which saw the 23-time Grand Slam winner arrive with her agent and assistant.
Alexis described the evening as a ‘two hour interrogation’ before he managed to win Serena over by bringing up Marvel’s historic superhero franchise.
But the American entrepreneur and investor first said: ‘Serena, her assistant, her agent, and then me on the other said of the table, and they just bombarded me with questions.
‘It was like two hours of interrogation and questions. Do I have kids, am I married. Nothing was off limits.’
Williams referenced her current agent Jill Smoller and laughed: ‘Jill asked him straight up like, “What’s up with your girlfriend?” and he’s like, “I don’t have a girlfriend.”
