Breaking: Serena Williams Proudly Shuts Down Claim of Professing Love to Husband Alexis Ohanian in Enchanting Throwback Tale…see more

They say Rome was not built in a day. For Alexis Ohanian and Serena Williams, a chance encounter in Rome in 2015 took just one year to blossom into a serious relationship.

Serena was playing at the Italian Open. Alexis was speaking at the Festival of Media Global conference and both were staying at the same hotel. Must be thinking it was a typical love at first sight story? Far from it! Serena was at the poolside for breakfast when fate took a strike.

“That big guy comes and he just plops down at the table next to us and I am like, ‘Huh, all these tables and he is sitting here?’” was Serena’s reaction at the first sight of Alexis.

Someone from Serena’s team revealed that Alexis saw a rat near his table, which made him change his place! The tale that started at the breakfast table had its culmination in December 2016, when the two came back to the same hotel and the same table and Alexis proposed to Serena. And guess what was there on their table amid other things?