Serena Williams and her daughters were prevented from entering a restaurant in Paris.
The retired tennis champion criticized a luxury hotel in Paris on Monday evening, August 5, for being ‘denied access’ to the hotel’s rooftop restaurant along with her children.
Serena, who served as a torch bearer at the opening ceremony of this summer’s Olympics, wrote on X: ‘Yikes @peninsulaparis I’ve been denied access to rooftop to eat in a empty restaurant of nicer places … but never with my kids.’
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‘Always a first.’ She added on a hashtag for the Olympics.
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Williams first arrived in the French capital in late July, ahead of the Olympic opening ceremony in which she participated as a torch bearer.
Williams won four Olympic gold medals over the course of her career.