Serena Williams is an American professional tennis player who has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles.
What did Richard Williams do for a living?
Serena Williams was born to Oracene Price and Richard Williams. Both her parents are tennis coaches who were influential in her career.
Richard took tennis lessons from a man known as “Old Whiskey”. After seeing Virginia Ruzici playing on television, he decided his future daughters would be tennis professionals.
When his daughters, Venus and Serena were four and a half, he wrote up an 85-page plan and started giving lessons to the two girls.
He took them to practice on public tennis courts, and in 1995, he withdrew his daughters from a tennis academy to coach them himself.
The 2021 biographical movie, King Richard, was based on him and his daughters, Venus and Serena. Will Smith took on the role of Richard Williams.
