How many kids does Richard Williams have?
RICHARD Williams is the father of sister tennis stars Serena and Venus Williams.
Will Smith played the patriarch in the 2021 film King Richard.
How many kids does Richard Williams have?
Throughout his life, the famous tennis coach married three times.
This led him to be the head of a big family.
He is known as the father of nine children, although some speculate he may have others.
Sabrina, Richard III, Ronner, Reluss, and Reneeka Williams
Moving from his birth town of Shreveport, Louisiana, to California after graduating high school, Richard met Betty Johnson.
The pair tied the knot in 1965 and had five children.
Betty was already the mother of one daughter, Katrina, who was raised alongside her five younger siblings.
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These include three sons: Richard, Ronner, and Reluss, and two daughters: Sabrina and Reneeka.
Richard and Betty divorced in 1973.
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Venus Williams
Six years after his divorce from Betty, Richard met Oracene "Brandy" Price, who already had three daughters with her then-deceased husband.
Oracene and Richard were married in 1980 and moved to Compton before welcoming two daughters together.
The first was Venus, who was born on June 17, 1980.
Her potential in tennis was spotted at the age of 7 by Tony Chesta, a tennis player local to California.
This encouraged Richard to move to West Palm Beach, Florida, to enable Venus to attend Rick Macci's tennis academy.
The former tennis player and coach took notice of Venus and gave her additional coaching.
Richard took over his daughter's coaching in 1995 when Venus turned professional at 14.
She progressively gained recognition during the 1990s and has participated in the Australian Open, the US Open, Wimbledon, the Grand Slam Cup, and the Olympic Games.
Her dating life includes romances with golfer Hank Kuehne, Cuban model Elio Pis, and publishing heir Nicholas Hammond.
Serena Williams
Serena is the youngest of Oracene's daughters with Richard, born on September 26, 1981, in Saginaw, Michigan.
Serena followed in Venus' footsteps, attending Rick Macci's tennis academy.
While Rick offered additional coaching to Serena and Venus, he respected Richard's choice to "allow them to be little girls."
Eventually, Richard stopped sending both sisters to national junior tournaments when Serena was ten years old, as he wanted them to focus on school work.
This was also motivated by experiences of racism, with Richard hearing white parents talk about his daughter in a derogatory manner during tournaments.
Serena had a 46-3 record on the United States Tennis Association Junior Tour.
Like her sister Venus, Serena made her professional debut in 1995 and became a top-10 player in the late 1990s.
In the early 2000s, Serena became the fifth woman to hold all Grand Slam singles titles simultaneously.
This was dubbed the "Serena Slam" by the media.
In 2003, she pulled out of three major sports events in the US to undergo surgery on the quadriceps tendon in her knee and returned at the 2004 NASDAQ-100 Open in March in Miami.
She has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, the most earned by any player in the Open Era and the second-most of all time, just behind Margaret Court, who won 24.
Serena has been married to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian since November 16, 2017.
He proposed to her on December 10, 2016, during a romantic getaway in Rome and announced their engagement in a Reddit post.
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Their wedding was celebrated in New Orleans in the presence of Beyoncé, Anna Wintour, Kim Kardashian, and Kelly Rowland.
Serena gave birth to her daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr, in September 2017.