Serena Williams has definitely passed on to daughter Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr if the youngster’s latest video is anything to go by.
In a new clip shared on the four-year-old’s official Instagram page, she could be seen showing off her football skills like a total pro during a session with Angel City FC.
She proved that she could backheel like the best of them before managing to score a goal on the pitch.
Alongside the sweet clip, the caption read: ‘Running with the Angels @weareangelcity @thinkbetterjair w the assist.’
Fans couldn’t get enough of the footage and promptly flooded the comments section below with praise for Alexis.
‘It’s the back pass for me,’ an Instagram user replied.
‘Go Olympia!!! You got skills gurl!!!! God bless [sic],’ another agreed.
‘You guys are awesome. You have given her such a solid structure. Natural talent,’ a follower posted.
As one said: ‘She’s a champion. Watch those legs go and that back kick.’
And a social media fan predicted: ‘Olympia is a natural athlete, I see her playing soccer for the USA team… She has got so big and so quickly.’
Tennis ace Serena shares Alexis with her husband, Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian, with the couple welcoming their first child together in 2017.
The sportswoman endured a and had to undergo back-to-back surgeries following the birth, as she developed a pulmonary embolism soon after.
In a recent essay, she recalled needing to fight to be given a Cat scan while in excruciating pain, a decision which could have saved her life.
She recalled a doctor saying she would have to have a C-section at the time, and voiced her concerns about getting a heparin drip, a drug that helps to prevent blood clots – something she was at high risk of after previously suffering from them.
‘I asked a nurse, “When do I start my heparin drip? Shouldn’t I be on that now?”’ she wrote in an essay for Elle. ‘The response was, “Well, we don’t really know if that’s what you need to be on right now.” No one was really listening to what I was saying.
‘The logic for not starting the blood thinners was that it could cause my C-section wound to bleed, which is true. Still, I felt it was important and kept pressing. All the while, I was in excruciating pain. I couldn’t move at all—not my legs, not my back, nothing.’
The Wimbledon winner detailed the moment she burst her stitches and had another surgery to repair them, before requesting a Cat scan from a nurse – who originally tried to dismiss her request.
She refused to let the issue lie, after years of listening to her own body, and fought to be listened to.
‘Finally, the nurse called my doctor, and she listened to me and insisted we check. I fought hard, and I ended up getting the Cat scan,’ she continued.
‘I’m so grateful to her. Lo and behold, I had a blood clot in my lungs, and they needed to insert a filter into my veins to break up the clot before it reached my heart.’
Serena spent a week in hospital before being able to return home to her husband and their daughter.
