Alison Riske-Amritraj expecting a baby girl this summer with creative gender reveal

Former world number 18 Alison Riske has revealed that she is becoming a mother for the fourth time. The 33-year-old announced the development in a creative post on her social media platform Instagram.

Interestingly, Riske, who participated in the Summer Olympics in 2021 and represented the United States, will be giving birth to her fourth child in July when the Paris Olympics will be taking place this year.

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The Pennsylvania-born has not retired from professional tennis but has not played any professional tennis since Wimbledon in 2023. In that competition, she was knocked out after losing in the round of 128 to Spain’s Paula Badosa in straight sets with a score of 6-3, 6-3.

Riske has not announced any plans to return to professional tennis soon. Till now, she has won three WTA titles in her career.

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However, her record while playing at Grand Slams does not make a pretty reading. Till now, despite appearing in the main round of a mega-event 42 times, she has only managed to get past the fourth round only once.

Her best appearance in a Grand Slam came in the 2019 edition at Wimbledon where she was knocked out after losing in the quarterfinal to the former world number one and America’s legendary tennis star Serena Williams with a score of 6-4, 4-6, 6-3.