Richard Williams (tennis)

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Richard Williams (tennis)

Richard Williams (born 1942) is an American

United States

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tennis

Tennis

Serena Williams

Serena Jameka Williams is an American professional tennis player who, as of February 2, 2009, is ranked World No. 1 by the Women's Tennis Association, having now held that ranking on four different occasions....
and Venus Williams

Venus Williams

Venus Ebony Starr Williams is a former List of WTA number 1 ranked players American tennis player who, as of February 23, 2009, is ranked World No....
, both former World No.1 tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber Tennis ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's tennis court....
players and multi-grand slam winners. Serena is the current World No.1 player on the WTA Tour.

ard Williams met his wife, Oracene, when both were young. In 1979, the couple got married

Marriage

Marriage is a social, spirituality, or law union of individuals. This union may also be called matrimony, while the ceremony that marks its beginning is usually called a wedding and the married status created is sometimes called wedlock....
and lived in Lansing, Michigan

Lansing, Michigan

Lansing is the List of U.S. state capitals of the U.S. state of Michigan, and the state's sixth largest city. It is located about 80 miles west-northwest of Detroit, Michigan and is mostly in Ingham County, Michigan, although small portions of the city extend into Eaton County, Michigan....
. Oracene had three daughters with her former husband, Yusef Rasheed.

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Richard Williams (born 1942) is an American

United States

Tennis

Serena Williams

Venus Williams

Venus Ebony Starr Williams is a former List of WTA number 1 ranked players American tennis player who, as of February 23, 2009, is ranked World No....
, both former World No.1 tennis

Tennis

Biography

Richard Williams met his wife, Oracene, when both were young. In 1979, the couple got married

Marriage

Lansing, Michigan

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
Compton

Compton, California

Compton is a city in southern Los Angeles County, California, California, United States, south-southeast of downtown Los Angeles, California. The city was incorporated in 1888....
area; Richard Williams would later make public his pride in having lived in Compton.

Richard Williams is said to have dreamed of a better future for his five daughters, and wanted at least one of them to succeed in sports. He began to take his daughters to Compton public tennis courts, where, according to his daughters' accounts, they had to get down on the ground one time to avoid bullets fired during an apparent drive-by.

Williams soon got his daughters into California

California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
tennis tournaments. But the Williamses reportedly suffered racism

Racism

Racism, by its simplest definition is the belief that Race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race....
while competing in California. That experience may have prompted some of the outspoken comments Williams would later on make to the media.

As 2000 began, Venus Williams was recovering from tendinitis on both wrist

Wrist

In human anatomy, the wrist is the flexible and narrower connection between the forearm and the hand. The wrist is essentially a double row of small short bones, called carpals, intertwined to form a malleable hinge....
s. She was forced to stay out of the women's tennis tour for almost half of the year. According to Venus Williams, she and her father spent most of their time watching Zorro
Zorro (TV series)

Zorro, a half-hour Walt Disney Productions TV series based on the well-known Zorro character, premiered October 10, 1957 on American Broadcasting Company....
on television at home and baking "moose goose" style rice cakes.

Richard and Venus Williams went back on the road, flying

Flight

Flight is the process by which an object moves either through the air, or movement beyond earth's atmosphere , by aerodynamically generating Lift , propulsion or Lighter than air using buoyancy, or by simple ballistic movement....
to France

France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
for that year's French Open. Soon after, they went to England

England

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for the Wimbledon competition.

After his daughter's victory over Davenport, Williams jumped over the NBC broadcasting booth, catching Chris Evert

Chris Evert

Christine Marie "Chris" Evert is a former List of ATP number 1 ranked players professional tennis player from the United States. She won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, including a record 7 at the French Open....
by surprise and performing a triumphant dance. Evert said that the broadcasters "thought the roof was coming down". He displayed his pride in having lived in Compton by shouting Straight out of Compton! after the match was over.

On September 14, 2003, Richard Williams suffered tragedy, as his stepdaughter, Yetunde Price

Yetunde Price

Yetunde Hawanya Tara Price was the elder half-sister and personal assistant to leading tennis players Venus Williams and Serena Williams. At the time of her death, she was 31 years old, the eldest of their mother's five daughters and mother of three children, a registered nurse and owner of a beauty salon....
, was shot to death while riding in a car with her boyfriend in Compton.

Richard Williams (tennis)

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