Rewriting Tennis History
"To see where we come from, out of the worst ghetto, to be here at the finest club in the world, it's just phenomenal. In other words, if I was writing a script for a movie, I would say, it gonna never happen," Richard Williams said in an interview in 2000 about daughters, Serena Williams and Venus Williams. This grass-to-grace story gets even better as years later Serena, born on September 26th, 1981, is still accomplishing tremendous things. “I know she is grandma, for even I who hates sports know she's a black tennis player,” Ada remarked. “Well done Ada, grandma replied but did you know she made it to her seventh Australian open set in 2017, while pregnant?” “ And mom cannot even fetch herself a glass of water!!” Ada marveled. To which grandma replied, we are talking about Serena Williams, the woman is always rewriting history. That year when she played, she surpassed Steffi Graf by capturing the record of 23rd Grand slam title putting her simply a point behind Margaret Court. While one can dream and chase after their dreams, they can achieve them faster with support from their loved ones and Serena received this from her family. Starting with her dad who was her first coach and also helped her develop a powerful serve and an aggressive style that became her trademark, to her sister Venus, also a tennis player, her husband Ohanian and their daughter Olympia. Yes, like, Serena Williams once said, everyone’s dreams can come true if you just stick to it and work hard, we'll see yet another dreamer next time in Sydney Poiter and his, “In the heat of the night"
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