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    Balancing Act: 'She took her first steps': A Serena Williams miss working parents can relate to

    by Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune Jul 10, 2018 2 minutes

    Two days before facing Russian Evgeniya Rodina at Wimbledon, Serena Williams tweeted the most human of messages.

    "She took her first steps ... I was training and missed it. I cried."

    "She," of course, is 10-month-old Olympia, Serena's daughter with husband Alexis Ohanian.

    A year ago, Williams was still pregnant. On Monday, she beat Rodina in her eighth singles

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