Tennis superstar Serena Williams engaged to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian
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Tennis superstar Serena Williams engaged to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian –
Tennis great Serena Williams and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian are engaged.
A spokesperson for Ohanian confirmed that he popped the question while the two were vacationing in Rome. Williams first announced the news herself in a Reddit post on its “r/isaidyes” forum.
Ohanian also announced the engagement on his Facebook page, linking to Williams’ Reddit post and adding, “She said yes.”
Williams and Ohanian, who have been dating since the fall of 2015, have mostly kept their romance out of the spotlight, though she does post pictures of them on her Instagram account from time to time.
Williams is preparing for the start of the 2017 tennis season, having lost her world No. 1 ranking to Germany’s Angelique Kerber this year.
Alexis Ohanian: a quiet, smiling 33-year-old best known as the co-founder of Reddit, a social news website he began with a roommate from his time at the University of Virginia in 2005. Today the site boasts half a billion visitors every month, making him one of the most influential men in Silicon Valley.
Williams and her older sister, Venus, grew up on the often troubled streets of Compton in Los Angeles, while Ohanian was born and raised an only child in New York by his father, Chris, whose family were refugees from Armenia, and his German-born mother, Anke.
