Former tennis player Kerber is pregnant again
The former tennis player Angelique Kerber is pregnant again, the German said on Instagram on Thursday.
Kerber will welcome her second child after giving birth to daughter Liana in February 2023.
"Counting down the days for someone special to arrive in our family," she wrote under a picture with Liana. Her management team confirmed the pregnancy to dpa.
Kerber took a break from tennis following her first pregnancy and returned to the courts around a year after giving birth to Liana.
She participated in the Paris Olympics last summer and reached the quarter-finals, losing to eventual gold medal winner Zheng Qinwen of China.
After the Games, she ended her professional career. The former world number one has three Grand Slam titles from wins at the Australian Open, the US Open and Wimbledon.
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