…ultimately win in both the doubles (Venus and Serena) and women’s single (Serena) competitions.
Williams had been criticized early on in his daughter’s career about how he trained them. And criticized later in life about everything from his marriage to his appearance in the stands.
“Criticism is one of the greatest things, I think, that we’ve been trained to live through,” Willams said in a 2015 CNN interview.
Richard Williams was no stranger to racism. Growing up in Shreveport, Louisiana, in the 1940s and ’50s, he says he witnessed a friend being lynched.
Another died after being run over by a white woman who claimed it was the victim’s fault. “There was no investigation, there was no police car,” he says.
“But that was life. I was close to being killed so many times. A hell of a lot of times.”
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