London, July 29: It's not just Serena Williams! Britain's Jordanne Whiley revealed that she won her fourth straight Wimbledon women's wheelchair doubles title while 11 weeks pregnant.
The 25-year-old tweeted that she is expecting her first child with coach and boyfriend Marc McCarroll, reported the Mixed Zone.
Whiley and her Japanese partner Yui Kamiji beat Marjolein Buis and Diede de Groot in the final at Wimbledon on July 16.
"I thought: 'If we start trying in May I could still play Wimbledon - and it worked" she told The Mixed Zone.
"But I had no idea how incredibly sick I'd be. For three days, I couldn't leave the house. At the French Open, I was really, really ill - so sick I thought it was a stomach bug. Even the doctors thought it was a stomach bug.
"But by Wimbledon I was a little more prepared. I knew how to manage it."
It's not just Serena...
— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) July 29, 2017
Jordanne Whiley has revealed she won the wheelchair doubles at #Wimbledon while pregnant! https://t.co/Za9hJO8Ldi pic.twitter.com/PjxyGYtvEQ
Whiley said she was planning to be back on court "in a year or 18 months" and has not ruled out competing at the Tokyo Paralympics in 2020.
In January, Serena Williams won the Australian Open singles title eight weeks into her pregnancy.
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