Breaking the Internet, Williams style. Serena Williams and Venus Williams recently reunited on the training court, and we now know it via Serena Williams’ TikTok account this matter.
“Having a great time hanging out with #venuswilliams,” the 23-time Grand Slam singles champion captioned a video of the pair released on Mondayfittingly accompanying the song “Beast Mode” by rock artist Rokka.
Behind-the-scenes video of the sisters shows them stretching on the court in the Florida sunshine – Venus Williams in a bright pink outfit and Serena Williams in black with a pink hat – and hitting each other on the field. During halftime, the latter showed off her signature Wilson racket – a Blade SW102 autographed with her signature on the inside – complete with a sticker dated September 17. February 2, 2022, the date of her last professional fight.
Fans were delighted to see the two sharing the court again.
“The reason I started watching tennis,” one fan wrote, while another called it “so exciting” to see the reunion.
“This is the best thing I’ve seen all day,” he told a third.
With less than 12 months until her final match at the 2022 US Open, Serena Williams announced her pregnancy in August this year after revealing she was pregnant at the Met Gala in May. Birth of second daughter, Adira River Ohanian. In the months since, she became the first athlete to receive the Fashion Icon Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America and was announced as one of eight athletes to be inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 2024.
Venus Williams, meanwhile, played a part-time season in 2023 and ended her season with that year’s Grand Slam final, where she lost in the first round to Belgium’s Gerrit Min rather.
The 43-year-old former world No. 1, who suffered the injury during her first-round loss to Elina Svitolina at Wimbledon, said in a social media interview earlier this fall that she hoped to resume the spring hard-court season. Before being able to “get back to normal” again in March.