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Serena Williams will go on maternity leave when she welcomes her baby and will take some time off from tennis until 2018,her rep told our team.

The 35-year-old 23-time Grand Slam champion and world's highest paid female athlete, who is engaged to a social network's co-founder Alexis Ohanian, posted on her Snapchat Wednesday  selfie of her showcasing a baby bump, with the caption "20 weeks." Her rep confirmed to our team that Serena is pregnant and due to give birth this fall.

Her rep told Reuters and Press Association Sport Serena will not participate in the remainder part of  2017 tennis season and She is going to return to the court in 2018.

For Serena, who commands nearly $29 million in salary and sponsorship earnings, becoming pregnant makes her all the more attractive to corporate sponsors, Reuters industry executives as saying.

Serena has not competed since she beat her sister Venus Williams to win the Women's Singles Match at the 2017 Australian Open in January, raising her record to 23rd grand slam title, while she was two months pregnant. Last month, she withdrew from the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California and the Miami Open, after getting a knee injury she suffered in 2016, which had also sidelined her for four months in late 2016—part of which marked the start of her first trimester of pregnancy

Serena has also taken breaks from tennis in past years, such as in 2010, when she injured her foot twice, and in 2011, when she was hospitalized for a blood clot in her lungs.

Other female pro tennis stars have left the tour to have children and then  resumed their careers, but all have been younger than Serena. Kim Clijsters, was 26 when she returned after her maternity leave in 2009. Belarus' Victoria Azarenka, 27, missed most of the 2016 season to have a baby and resumed her career this summer.