Last week, Serena Williams suffered the worst loss of her professional career.
Johanna Konta defeated Serena 6-1, 6-0.
Serena couldn’t even win one game against Johanna after she just finished as the winner-up in Wimbledon.
Following the match, Serena did not let anybody from the media see her sweat:
I know I can play a zillion times better so that kind of helps out, too. I have so many things on my mind; I don’t have time to be shocked about a loss that clearly wasn’t at my best right now…When I was out there, was fighting. That’s the only thing I can say. I wasn’t just like giving it away and I was moving a lot better. So I’m just trying to take the positives out of it.
Today, after a few days passed for Serena to process and decompress the loss, Serena looks like she’s taking a more humble approach.
In fact, Serena shared a very personal post on her Instagram opening up about her struggles with postpartum depression as a new mother.
Just to clarify: this is only a story because it’s Serena Williams. Any other female athlete on planet Earth would get the benefit of the doubt, 9 months after birthing a child.
Flip the pages to see Serena Williams getting personal about motherhood; photos of her daughter Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr.; and photos of Serena Williams just being her best self.