Serena Williams’ husband, Alexis Ohanian, is a man of many hobbies. Other than his hobby of owning and investing in sports teams, especially women’s teams, and enjoying his leisure time by making pancakes for his daughters, Ohanian is also a sports memorabilia enthusiast, focusing on collecting Williams’ trading cards and other collectibles. He has now amassed more than 4500 cards of his wife to preserve the legacy of the 23-time Grand Slam champion for their future grandkids and great-grandkids to cheer. “I don’t want our grandkids to ever have to go to museums to see someone else’s possessions. They should be the ones renting it out. So that’s why we got the greatest collection of all time for you [Serena Williams].” But is he only excited about seeing cards featuring his legendary wife?

Well, just days before the 2025 Wimbledon, Ohanian shared a glimpse of tennis cards featuring the defending champion at SW19, Carlos Alcaraz. He captioned that post with, “Glad to see tennis cards finally getting some respect in the hobby!” It featured a card highlighting a glimpse of Alcaraz from 2022. In another picture, he showcased a racket knob with the signature of the 2024 Indian Wells champion (Alcaraz) with a price tag of $222,000. Later on, he also dropped a comment on that post saying, “And make sure y’all keep those cards coming @onmantel.”

Talking about cards, his most-prized possessions feature trading cards of his wife and other tennis legends like Andy Roddick, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, and many more. A few months ago, he shared a few glimpses of her sister-in-law, Venus Williams’ tennis cards on his IG stories with the caption, “Gotta carefully tear these @venuswilliams unofficial RCs….” The card from Sports Illustrated Kids featured young Venus, with her beads, playing at Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

Other than tennis players, his wide range of collections includes superstars from Formula 1, basketball, golf, and even soccer. In 2023, he shared a post featuring his daughter Olympia, with the caption, “It begins… I’m getting Jr. into the hobby.” Which among these cards is his favorite one, though?

In May 2024, Serena Williams’ husband, Alexis Ohanian, shared a post of ALT on his IG stories. In that post, a person was spotted speaking about Ohanian’s favorite card. He said, “This is actually Alexis’ favorite card. And it’s the 2018 Employee Exclusive Patch Auto. But he loves it because this is a photo of her in the 2017 Australian Open, where she was pregnant with Olympia. So this is his favorite card by far.”

Talking about the craze for tennis cards, in December last year, Carlos Alcaraz was put on the hot seat to name the most expensive tennis card ever. Replying to that question, Alcaraz named only male players, including Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, and Novak Djokovic, among his first few guesses. But the real answer to this question was the $266,000 card featuring the 23-time major champion, Serena Williams.

Later on, Alexis Ohanian and Topps, a trading card manufacturer, jointly posted that Reel featuring Alcaraz’s wild guesses on IG with the caption, “@carlitosalcarazz I’m gonna let it slide that you didn’t guess right the first time.” But despite his failure to make the right guess at that time, Alcaraz has never failed to showcase his love and admiration for Serena Williams.

Carlos Alcaraz hails Serena Williams for her enormous contributions on a very special day

Serena Williams’ contributions extend far beyond her remarkable tennis career, encompassing significant impacts on equality, empowerment, and philanthropy. Last year on International Women’s Day (March 8), ATP stars including Carlos Alcaraz, Novak Djokovic, Jannik Sinner, and a few others were asked to wish the special women in their lives on this special day. Different players had picked different personalities to celebrate Women’s Day, but guess who was Alcaraz’s pick?

“I‘m going to go for Serena, everything that she has done in tennis, in life. And she came from a really humble life, family. It’s admirable. So I’m going to pick her,” he said at that time. 

Serena Williams’ close allies, including Rick Macci and Patrick Mouratoglou, are big fans of Carlos Alcaraz. For example, Mouratoglou once drew a very interesting comparison by saying, “He can do so many different things and he does everything so well. He drop shots, he comes to the net, unbelievable power, unbelievable touch. He can return volley and he does all this in a match. That’s crazy. Of course, he’s not as consistent as Rafa or Novak at their peak or Sinner now, who’s incredibly consistent. But he’s more fiery.”

Recently, after his title triumph at the HSBC Championships, Serena Williams’ childhood coach, Rick Macci, also showed praise for the youngster. He tweeted, “The Spanish magician just broke another record by replacing the HONDA MEAN MOWER V2 as the fastest Lawnmower at 151.99 mph and breaking another record as the fastest acceleration from 0 to 100 in 2.29 seconds. Carlos is a Cut above. @carlosalcaraz.” Seeing his recent run at Roland Garros and here at Queen’s, do you think he has a chance of defending his Wimbledon title for the third time in a row?