The 2022 US Open has begun, and tennis nice Serena Williams obtained on the courtroom to face her first opponent with some very particular individuals within the stands to cheer on: her husband, Alexis Ohanian, and daughter, Olympia, 4. Whereas family and friends are at all times supporting her from the sidelines, this time it’s much more particular as a result of it’s doubtless the ultimate competitors for Williams earlier than her retirement.

To mark the event, Olympia wore the identical white beaded cornrow braids her mother wore as a younger tennis participant — to her first ever US Open in 1998 at 16 years previous. She cheered, waved, and took footage of her mother because the tennis GOAT entered the world carrying a black shimmering tennis outfit and a stone chilly perspective.

Serena and Venus each sported the signature look within the nineties after they had been first approaching the scene as main skilled tennis gamers, and now the subsequent era is carrying on the custom, even when it’s from the stands.

The Serena Ventures proprietor not too long ago reminisced on her teenage trend sense whereas sitting down with Vogue, the place she refers to her very first unfold with the journal as “This was trend, trend, trend, in ‘Z’ formation!”

“You’ll be able to see we had been actually younger, we nonetheless had our beads, and we nonetheless had our youth,” she stated with amusing. “It was such a tremendous second, I keep in mind simply being so excited to shoot for Vogue, it was so cool!”

Each Venus and Serena wore matching black and white pinstriped robes by Carolina Herrera to go with their hair, which additionally had highlights of yellow beading as effectively.

Followers watching the event couldn’t get sufficient of the long-lasting second, tweeting, “Serena wins her First Grandslam at 17, in 1999 on the US Open, in white beads. 23 years later: Olympia wears white beads to her mom’s Closing Grandslam of her profession — the US Open❤️.”

Throughout her opening entrance, the digicam catches Olympia beaming as she awaits Serena to enter the world, together with her child’s digicam in hand, able to seize the second. Launched as “the best of all time,” Olympia is taking pics and cheering on Serena as she units up for her match, and whereas she fangirls her mother, the world can’t get hold their eyes off her.

Williams received the primary spherical towards Danka Kovinic of Montenegro, with a rating of 6-3 and 6-3. and is ready to play once more on Wednesday, August 31, towards Anett Kontaveit, who’s at the moment ranked second on the planet. Sister Venus Williams can even be taking part in doubles together with her on Wednesday. As Serena has not too long ago introduced that she might be taking a break from tennis to concentrate on rising her household, what appears to be her remaining event has had a formidable begin.

Good luck to Serena as she continues competing within the US Open!