*Serena Williams took to Instagram Monday night with an emotional post about not feeling like a good mom to her daughter Alexis Olympia.
“Although I have been with her every day of her life,” Williams wrote on Instagram, “I’m not around as much as I would like to be. Most of you moms deal with the same thing. Whether stay-at-home or working, finding that balance with kids is a true art.”
After Williams gave birth to Alexis Olympia last September, the tennis star needed surgery for blood clots and struggled with postpartum depression.
She suffered the most lopsided defeat of her career last Tuesday night, losing her opening match of the Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic to Johanna Konta, 6-1, 6-0, in a match that lasted only 52 minutes. On Saturday, she pulled out of this week’s Rogers Cup in Montreal, citing personal reasons.
Williams explained those reasons in her Instagram post: