Tennis has been graced with so many legendary players & coaches as of late and the past. Each with their fair case argument as to why they should be the greatest tennis coach of all time from Nick Bollettieri who has coached a number of the greatest ever from Boris Becker, Andre Agassi, Maria Sharapova to the current coach of Novak Djokovic, Marian Vajda whos been breaking records with Djokovic. None so however in the manner of Richard Williams & very few have had their ‘students’ dominate the sport as his daughters Venus & Serena, hence why is regarded one of the greatest if not the greatest tennis coach of all time.
The forthcoming biopic movie about his coaching journey & the lives of his daughters Venus & Serena should definitely be one that excites not just fans of the star superstar tennis champions, but also parents who have always wanted to play a part in aiding their kids into taking up a sport or hobby they would enjoy & help guide them but often feel they lack the time or the credentials to do so, so they just give up.
The Story of Richard Dove Williams & how he even got the idea of teaching his girls how to play tennis & then executing his vision almost sounds too good & simplistic to be true but it is & it goes to show the power of self-belief & a little motivation can achieve. While we wait for what we anticipate to be a great film. Here’s in the short real-life story of Richard Williams aka King Richard.
โ๐๐ฆโ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ต๐ณ๐บ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ด ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ. ๐๐ฆโ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ต๐ณ๐บ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฅ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฎ๐ด.โ
Venus Williams
Richard Dove Williams. A former sharecropper, Richard watched a tennis match on TV one day & was shocked at the size of the check being handed to the winner. So as a middle-aged man, he decided to teach himself this remarkably complex game. Richard wrote a 78-page plan, scrounged a shopping cart full of balls & taught his two youngest daughters Venus & Serena the game & did so in a way that would revolutionize tennis forever.
He taught them to serve big & hit hard on every shot from anywhere on the court. On those cracked courts in Compton, with gunfire sometimes echoing in the distance, he would invent a new lane in the game of tennis. He taught them hard work & unwavering self-belief wins & he would never allow anyone to question or make his daughters feel otherwise.
Williams also ignored the conventional path of having his daughters play junior tournaments.
He argued that theyโd simply have to โunlearnโ the steady, pusher style tennis that dominates when you put small children on a big court so he went away designed & executed a 78-page tennis training plan to perfection. A plan that would go on to influenced the sport dramatically & be the kick-starter of many parent-child training plans.
His methods brought to the awareness of the world two of the greatest, most dominant sports athletes – yet alone tennis – the world has ever set eyes on & who share 30 titles & counting between them.
Now a Hall of Fame inductee, Williams is regarded as one of the greatest tennis coaches of all time. As for the girls well, I think we all know how that turned out.
โ๐๐ต ๐จ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ด๐ข๐บ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ด ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ข & ๐, & ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ช๐ด, & ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฉ๐ฆโ๐ด ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต, ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ.โ
Venus Williams
“๐๐ถ๐ค๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ช๐ต, ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ค๐ข๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐บ, ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐บ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด, ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ต๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด, ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ต ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ, ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ต ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ.”
Williams Sisters
See the Movie ‘King Richard’ starring Will Smith set for release this winter. The first trailer is out now!
