Serena Williams’s No. 1 supporter is her daughter, Olympia.

Serena Williams received the Australian Open in 2017 when she was pregnant. Her daughter, Olympia, is now 4 (she turns 5 on Thursday), and was at Arthur Ashe Stadium on Monday evening to observe her mom compete.

She additionally practically stole the present on the ESPN broadcast.

As Williams hit aces and swing volleys, which have come to outline her recreation and legacy, Olympia sat close by in Williams’s participant’s field. She donned braids with white beads on them, paying homage to a mode her mom wore when she received her first U.S. Open in 1999. Olympia additionally wore a black bedazzled prime that matched the one her mom wore on courtroom.

“It was both her put on beads or me,” Williams mentioned throughout a information convention after her win.

“I wished to do it however I simply didn’t have the time,” she mentioned, earlier than including that Olympia has requested to put on beads rather a lot.

“I used to be so comfortable when she had them on, it’s excellent on her.” she mentioned.

Olympia — whose full identify is Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr. — watched Williams play, but in addition frolicked going forwards and backwards between enjoying with Isha Value’s hair and sitting in her father’s lap, clapping. Value is considered one of Williams’s sisters.

“I sit up for simply being a mother,” Williams mentioned throughout a post-match ceremony. “She’s such woman and I simply need to be mother to her.”

Williams started her farewell essay in Vogue with an anecdote about Olympia and the way she felt she wanted to decide on between tennis and household:

Don’t get me mistaken: I really like being a lady, and I liked each second of being pregnant with Olympia. I used to be a kind of annoying ladies who adored being pregnant and was working till the day I needed to report back to the hospital—though issues received tremendous sophisticated on the opposite aspect. And I nearly did do the unattainable: Lots of people don’t notice that I used to be two months pregnant after I received the Australian Open in 2017. However I’m turning 41 this month, and one thing’s received to provide.

After the match, Olympia and her father went as much as the participant’s lounge to get ice cream.