The black Williams sisters are no longer strangers to tennis fans around the world. Both have risen to No. 1 in the world for a long time, are loved for their powerful play, the fastest serves in Tennis history and have set many “enviable” records. . Venus and Serena are both named in the Top 10 greatest female tennis players of all time, and together, they have won every Grand Slam women’s doubles match.
Sister Venus Williams has won 23 Grand Slam titles in her career to date, including 7 women’s singles titles, 14 women’s doubles titles and 2 mixed titles, along with 1 Olympic Gold Medal. . Venus also reached the Grand Slam final 7 other times and was runner-up.
Younger sister Serena Williams has even built a larger list of achievements than her older sister. The 40-year-old tennis player is currently still in the top 10 WTA, and was one of the four players who reigned at number 1 the most with 302 weeks. She was honored by Tennis Channel as “The greatest female tennis player in history”. Serena has 39 Grand Slam titles to date, including 23 women’s singles titles (7 Australian Open, 3 French Open, 7 Wimbledon and 6 US Open), 14 women’s doubles titles and 2 women’s doubles titles. couple. This number is higher than the achievements of any currently competing tennis player, putting Serena at the top of the Top 10 greatest female tennis players in the Open era, ahead of female legends such as Steffi Graf, Martina Navratilova…
The Williams sisters were born into a family where both parents were athletes and tennis coaches. Favorable family backgrounds helped Venus and Serena soon gain access to professional tennis. Both father ( Richard Williams ) and mother ( Oracene Price ) directly coached their two daughters for a long time, until they divorced. Since then, Venus and Serena have been raised, taught and trained mainly with their mother – Mrs. Oracene Price. She and her two daughters have won more than 120 tennis titles of all kinds.
Oracene Price is currently living alone, but Venus and Serena’s love for her is still very great. They continuously share moments together. Mrs. Price is a familiar face in the tennis stands every time her two daughters compete. Serena, in a letter to her mother when she gave birth to her first daughter, said that she was “the strongest woman I have ever known.” For her, her mother is a great source of motivation and the example she needs to overcome gossip about her “hard like a man’s” body due to intense training. She is proud to have inherited her grandmother’s strength.
Mom, please promise me that you will continue to help us. I’m not sure if I will ever have strength like yours, but I hope one day I will. I love Mom.
Serena reminded her in a letter to her mother
