Venus Ebony Starr Williams is a black American tennis player, the older sister of court star Serena Williams, five-time Wimbledon winner, four-time Olympic champion, owner of countless sporting titles and awards. She is known not only for her achievements in tennis, but also for the scandals that now and then arise around her life and career.
Biography
American Orasin Price, mother of the Williams sisters, is a tennis coach nicknamed Brandy. For Richard Williams, the father of Serena and Venus, Orasin married after the death of her previous husband, Yusef Rashid, who left his wife three daughters.
Richard, the eminent tennis coach, was by that time divorced and from his first marriage he had three daughters and two sons. Orasin gave him two more daughters who would change the world of tennis in the future. The spouses are followers of Jehovah's Witnesses, raising their children in these religious traditions.
Venus was born in the summer of 1980, and her famous sister was born a year later. The weather girls attended school together and from a very tender age began training on the court under the watchful eye of two wonderful professional coaches - mom and dad.
To train their daughters, showing amazing results, the family moved to Florida at the suggestion of Rick McKee, a national coach who has worked with tennis legends Capriati, Sharapova and others. McKee decided to personally deal with the talented sisters. The Williams split up in 2002, but by that time all their children had found their calling in life, and Venus had already become an Olympic champion and won the victory at Wimbledon.
Sports career
Venus Williams made her professional tennis debut as a 14-year-old at the 1994 WTA Auckland Tournament. In 1997, she first entered the Grand Slam courts, becoming a real discovery. Fighting with adults, experienced tennis players, Venus made her way in the French Championship to the second round. The debut Wimbledon was a failure for the girl, but already at the next after the French American Championship, she, a 17-year-old young athlete, broke into the final, becoming a real star of the sports world. The eldest Venus finished 97th year with an amazing result, taking the twenty-second line in the world rankings. And the 98th season ended for the young tennis player in the fifth position in the world classification.
The young star played the 1999 season for the first time with Serena, starting to compete in Sydney and ending at the French Championship. The sisters won the doubles Grand Slam Cup. In the same year, at Wimbledon, Venus lost a little to tennis player Hingis in a singles battle, but in doubles competitions in the United States, the Williams sisters again take the Grand Slam prize, for the second time in one season, and Venus is in the world rankings third.
In 2000, a young athlete was recovering for a long time after a rather serious injury, she had serious problems with tendons on both wrists, the girl was intensively treated, trained and "got into line" only by the end of spring. Her efforts were not in vain - this year she won the individual Grand Slam prize for the first time and traditionally shared the victory in doubles with her sister.
Having gained excellent shape, the tennis player easily beats the two best tennis players in the world rankings in the 1st and 2nd places at the US Open, and at the same time takes Olympic gold in Sydney. This was the peak of the career of Williams Sr., who then became the best of the best, who went down in the history of sports forever as a legend.
Then Venus's career developed with varying success, but she did not steadily fall below the fifth position in the world ranking until 2005, which ended for Venus on the 10th line of the women's classification.2006 was also unsuccessful for the athlete, which she finished in 48th position, missing several important games of the season.
In 2011, Williams became a vegetarian - doctors found she had a complex autoimmune disease, but the girl did not want to leave her favorite sport, and therefore simply changed her diet and began to train harder.
In the 2017 Australian Championship finals, viewers admired the "Clash of the Titans" - the battle between the two Williams sisters. At that time, Venus lost to her younger sister, and then, reaching the finals of Wimbledon, the WTA tournament and the American Championship, she was defeated in each of them, and the next year, at the Australian Championships, Venus lost to her rivals on the court in the first round.
Scandals
In the summer of 2017, a real scandal erupted in the press involving Venus Williams. She was found guilty of a car accident that resulted in the deaths of 78-year-old Jerome Barson and his wife, 68-year-old Linda. Of course, no one began to hide the sports star behind bars, but the relatives of the victims did not agree with this and filed a lawsuit against Williams, demanding tougher punishment.
In 2016, both Venus and Serena Williams found themselves at the center of a doping scandal that erupted due to information posted on the network by unknown hackers. It was clear from the files that both tennis players were taking illicit steroid hormones. But Williams was able to justify himself by proving that the medication was necessary for medical reasons.
Personal life
Venus is an addicted person. Despite her significant contribution to the development of sports, she is engaged in other things, including creativity. She loves to sing in karaoke, handicrafts, writes poetry and performs them for friends with a guitar.
Beloved Venus is a golfer Hank Kuehne, but both athletes do not talk too much about the private details of their close relationship. And Venus is also a co-owner of the Miami Dolphins club, popular in American football.
