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Serena Williams Starts Teaching Tennis to Daughter Adira, 14 Months, in Adorable Video: ‘When Is Too Soon?’
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Serena Williams Starts Teaching Tennis to Daughter Adira, 14 Months, in Adorable Video: ‘When Is Too Soon?’

The tennis professional is the mother of daughters Adira and Olympia, 7, whom she shares with her husband Alexis Ohanian

Serena Williams/Instagram Serena Williams and her daughter Adira.Serena Williams/Instagram Serena Williams and her daughter Adira.

Serena Williams/Instagram

Serena Williams and her daughter Adira.

Serena Williams her youngest daughter is already starting to follow in her mother’s footsteps.

On Monday, November 4, the tennis professional, 43, shared a video on his Instagram of herself and her 14-month-old daughter Adira as they stood together on a tennis court. In the Reel, Adira picks up a tennis ball and looks at her mother, who points to a basket full of tennis balls and says, “Hey Adira, put it here!”

Adira runs away from her mother, throws the ball against a fence and walks towards a white bench. “She was just doing it, man,” Williams says in the video. “We turned the camera on, she doesn’t want to do it.”

“When is it too early?” @adiraohanian” Williams joked in his caption.

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Williams shares daughters Adira and Olympia, 7, with her husband Alexis Ohanian41.

At the end of October, the retired tennis professional shared some pretty photos on his Instagram with her two daughters while they were all dressed to see Taylor Swift at his Eras Tour show in Miami.

In the cute family photos, Williams wore a black mini dress while holding her baby girl, who wore denim shorts, a long-sleeved white shirt, a blue hair bow and a pearl choker necklace. Olympia went all out for the show, sporting a replica of Swift Lover bodysuit and silver rhinestone cowboy boots.

“It’s us… Getting ready for @taylorswift ,” the proud mom captioned the post.

In August, Williams I thought about how it’s been a year ever since she welcomed baby Adira into her family. The proud mother of two posted some throwback snaps on Instagram of herself with Olympia from her maternity session before welcoming Adira.

The mother-daughter duo could be seen smiling in a flower bed wearing matching pink flowy dresses. “Olympia is always there for me,” Williams said in her caption. “Before having a second child, I always asked myself, ‘How could I love something as much as I love @olympiaohanian?'”

She continued, “Then Adira came…she is so special, so fun, so funny, so loving, so sweet and so strong!!! You see, God makes your heart grow. Because my love for Olympia doesn’t has not diminished. My heart has simply doubled in size and I have a greater capacity to love more!”