Serena Williams’ husband Alexis Ohanian turns down Andy Roddick’s subtle request for hosting ManningCast-like show explaining his reason

Ohanian shoots down Roddick's request of hosting a tennis version of 'Manningcast'

Serena Williams’ husband Alexis Ohanian turns down Andy Roddick’s subtle request for hosting ManningCast-like show explaining his reason

Alexis Ohanian and Serena Williams (Credits : Getty Images)

Reddit co-founder and founder of the venture capital firm Seven Seven Six, Alexis Ohanian, and his former tennis superstar wife, Serena Williams have shown a strong inclination towards investing in sports apart from tennis, particularly women’s sports. The pair recently bought the first golf team for TGL, a new league developed by golf greats, Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy.

Ohanian is already the principal owner and founding investor of LA’s National Women’s Soccer League team, Angel City FC. Owing to his natural inclination to tennis, former tennis star Andy Roddick had an interesting offer for the tech-founder. Roddick shared a post on ‘X’ captioned, “ManningCast is the most consistently entertaining thing in sports television. Someone should do it in tennis.”

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The former American no.1 went on to ask Ohanian if he was up to starting something like that in tennis. Alexis was quick to turn down the request, replying to the original post, “Believe me, Andy, everyone asks me to do it, but I just can’t leave my day job in tech. ¯_(ツ)_/¯”

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Manningcast is an American alternate live television broadcast of Monday Night Football hosted by brothers Peyton and Eli Manning. It is produced by Peyton’s production company Omaha Productions. The broadcasts air on ESPN2, ESPN+ and TSN+ in Canada.

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Alexis Ohanian urges more investment in women’s sport after historic viewership in Coco Gauff’s US Open final win

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Coco Gauff with the US Open trophy (credits: Getty Images)

19-year-old Coco Gauff created history on Saturday as she came back from a set down to become the first American teenager to win the country’s major tennis tournament since Serena Williams in 1999. The 6th seed defeated the newly crowned No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 to clinch her first Grand Slam title. With the win, she also became the first American to win a US Open singles title since Sloane Stephens in 2017.

Serena Williams’ husband Alexis Ohanian shared a stunning viewership stat related to the match. Ohanian shared a post on ‘X’ captioned, “Facts > Feelings US viewership of @USOpen finals: Coco Gauff vs Aryna Sabalenka: 3.422 million Novak Djokovic vs Daniil Medvedev: 2.321 million The free market speaks (again).
Invest in Women’s Sports. @weareangelcity was just the start for me…”

The women’s singles finals match witnessed more viewers in the US than the men’s singles finals. Interestingly, this edition of the US Open was the 50th since the tournament announced equal pay for both men’s and women’s tournaments.

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