July 7, 2023
QUESTION:
In 2017, Serena Williams won the Australian Open despite experiencing what medical condition?
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ANSWER:
She was 8 weeks pregnant!
“In January 2017, Williams won the Australian Open while pregnant; she found out that she was expecting just before the tournament began. As she told Vanity Fair in June of 2017, the news came as a shock. She’d taken the pregnancy test as a joke and to prove her friend Jessica Steindorff wrong about her suspicions.
Williams said she ‘did a double take and my heart dropped. Like literally it dropped.’ She couldn’t believe it: ‘Oh my God, this can’t be—I’ve got to play a tournament. How am I going to play the Australian Open?’”