Game, set, mom.
Tennis legend Serena Williams welcomed her first child, a baby girl, with fiancé and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian in Florida on Friday, according to multiple reports.
Sources confirmed the baby’s arrival to E! News and Us Weekly, shortly after local West Palm Beach TV journalist Chris Shepard tweeted, “Tennis star Serena Williams gives birth to a baby girl weighing 6 pounds, 13 ounces. Mom and baby doing well.”
“Obviously, I’m super excited,” Serena’s big sis, Venus Williams, told ESPN shortly before her match at the US Open on Friday afternoon. “Words can’t describe.”
After the news broke, pal Beyoncé, who welcomed twins this summer, offered up her well wishes to the 35-year-old, posting on Instagram, “Congratulations Serena!”
Prior to their daughter’s arrival, the couple insisted they didn’t know the sex, though Ohanian said he suspected it would be a girl — and Venus referred to the unborn child as “she” and “her.”
Williams previously said that despite “not being a baby person,” giving birth would make her feel like a “real woman.”
“I have so much respect for so many women,” Williams said. “I am about to be a real woman now, you know? It’s going to be something incredibly impressive to go through.”
Still, she planned to go through it with a little help: Williams, who was linked to Drake and dated rapper Common before settling down with Ohanian, said that she’d likely use an epidural to get through labor.
“I’m nervous about childbirth,” she told Vogue. “I’m not a spring chicken. The one thing I really want is an epidural, which I know a lot of people are against, but I’ve had surgeries galore, and I don’t need to experience any more pain if I can avoid it.”
Williams accidentally revealed her pregnancy to the world in April, when she posted a photo of her 20-week bump to Snapchat. Ever the professional, she didn’t slow down her workouts while she was expecting and she has promised to get back on the tennis courts by 2018.
“My baby is going to be in the stands,” she told Gayle King in April, “hopefully cheering for me and not crying too much.”
A rep for Williams was unable to confirm the news.
Additional reporting by Julie Gordon and Bryan Hood