Tennis

Serena Williams announces engagement to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian

Published Dec. 29, 2016 3:54 p.m. ET

Allyssa Lee

Tennis champion Serena Williams is going to become a Mrs.

The 22-time Grand Slam winner announced that she is engaged to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian ... on a Reddit post titled "I Said Yes:"

"I came home / A little late / Someone had a bag packed for me / And a carriage awaited," Williams wrote. "Destination: Rome / To escort me to my very own 'charming' / Back to where our stars first collided / And now it was full circle / At the same table we first met by chance / This time he made it not by chance / But by choice / Down on one knee / He said 4 words / And / r/isaidyes."

Ohanian responded to Williams' post by writing, "And you made me the happiest man on the planet."

Reports of Williams and the 33-year-old Ohanian's relationship first surfaced in 2015, but the couple have largely stayed off social media.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BNYH1Y9gpiP/?taken-by=serenawilliams&hl=en

Though now the cat is out of the bag, so to speak, fans have been having a field day — offering the couple congratulations and making edits to Ohanian's Wikipedia page like this one calling him "now the luckiest nerd of us all:"

https://twitter.com/linzsports/status/814565082797637632

Which Ohanian approved:

https://twitter.com/alexisohanian/status/814572262200217600

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