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  1. Richard Dove Williams Jr. [1] (born February 14, 1942) [2] is a former American tennis coach and the father of tennis players Venus and Serena Williams . Early life. Williams is the eldest of six children [3] and the only son of Julia Mae ( née Metcalf) and Richard Dove Williams of Shreveport, Louisiana.

  2. Nov 19, 2021 · King Richard: Understanding the Real Richard Williams, Father and Coach to Venus and Serena. The Williams family cooperated with Will Smith and King Richard ’s filmmakers to make sure they...

  3. Nov 22, 2021 · Rick Macci Coached Venus and Serena Williams For Years. He Told Us What King Richard Left Out. On a rare break from his seven-day-a-week training schedule, the legendary tennis coach also...

    • Brady Langmann
    • Entertainment Editor
    • blangmann@hearst.com
    • 2 min
  4. Nov 17, 2021 · The new movie "King Richard" tells the story of how Richard Williams, a Black man who grew up in the Jim Crow South, forced the white world of tennis to pay attention to his daughters,...

    • Elizabeth Blair
  5. May 1, 2024 · The film depicts how Richard Williams raised his daughters Venus and Serena to become tennis champions, despite facing racism and poverty. It also explores the challenges and controversies of his ambitious and controversial parenting style.

    • Liam Gaughan
    • Senior Writer
    • Reinaldo Marcus Green
  6. Nov 16, 2021 · Played by Will Smith, Richard Williams was coach, dad, and promoter of the girls, training with them on broken-down public courts in 1990s South Los Angeles, collecting discarded balls, and...

  7. Nov 6, 2021 · In exploring how much of King Richard is true, we learned that Richard Williams had a group of schoolchildren bused to the Compton tennis courts to hurl insults at Venus and Serena. Richard didn't intervene. Instead, he believed that the verbal abuse would make them stronger.

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