Serena Williams, appearing in Ellen magazine, shared how she guided her daughter Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr. Play tennis – but not too vigorously. ‘I love her so much,’ the 40-year-old tennis icon said of her child with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, after which she was asked by Ellen DeGeneres how Olympia plays tennis.

Williams said Olympia has shown potential but will need to put in more effort to hone her skills ‘if she wants to play tennis’.

Williams said that Olympia’s ‘ambition is playing princess games, [as] she loves princess games and the more we can play anything with princesses, that’s her whole life.’

Williams told DeGeneres that she recently hired a tennis coach for Olympia, but did not reveal who she was to the coach.

‘This is such a funny story, because … I don’t have the patience to teach tennis, it’s so weird but I don’t really like to play with people who don’t know how to play tennis well – so it drives me nuts – so I was like, “I can’t I don’t have the patience for this,” she said. ‘So I signed her up for a class, a private teacher, so she came in, I didn’t wanna tell her.’