CELEBRITY FRIDAY: Serena To Play First Match As A Married Mom This Weekend

Serena Williams and Jelena Ostapenko are the first women to appear at the Mubada World Tennis Championship in Abu Dhabi, a prestigious and lucrative exhibition tournament that usually features the top male players at the end of the year and signals the beginning of next year's tennis season.

Serena has not played a match since winning the 2017 Australian Open (while pregnant) and gave birth to her daughter Alexis Olympia Ohanian, Jr on September 1 (during the U.S. Open!) and married Alexis Ohanian, Sr in a celebrity-studded event in New Orleans on November 16.

Serena will be playing her first public match as a married mother this Saturday December 30th. She will face the 2017 French Open champion. Serena is expected to defend her Australian Ope title next month.

Welcome back to tennis, Serena!