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Dec 6, 2021 · Venus continued her association with Reebok, signing a five-year contract worth $40 million. Serena meanwhile, got her own $40 million five-year deal with Nike.
- Richard Williams’ Early Coaching of Venus and Serena
- Did Richard Fight A Gang Harassing Venus and Serena?
- Did Richard See A Gang Member Shot in Front of him?
- Did Richard Write A Plan For His Daughters’ Success Before They Were Even born?
- Pulling Venus and Serena Off The Junior Tournament Circuit
- Did Richard and Venus Turn Down A Nike Deal?
- Does Venus Really Speak Four Languages?
- How Many Children Does Richard Have Anyway?
We see the young Venus (Saniyya Sidney) and Serena (Demi Singleton) hitting balls on the Compton court at night as the rain buckets down. A neighbor says she’s going to call social services on Richard for making the girls play in such terrible weather. In fact, the sisters were expected to start as early as 6 a.m. and then return after school, play...
As the girls play on a tennis court, a gang starts trash-talking their older sister, Yetunde. Richard storms over and tells him off, creating bad blood, with the gang hanging around the court menacingly. One night after practice as Richard is gathering tennis balls, they beat him mercilessly. By all accounts this actually happened. Describing the c...
After the beating, Richard takes the gun he has access to in his job as a security guard and goes hunting for the gang leader. When the gang leader goes into a fast food restaurant, Richard takes out his gun and seems to be preparing to shoot but then a car comes out of nowhere and shoots the gangbanger in a drive-by. According to Richard’s memoir,...
Richard goes to the country club where Paul Cohen (Tony Goldwyn)—John McEnroe and Pete Sampras’s coach—is holding practice sessions. He persuades Cohen to watch the girls hit a few balls and tells the coach he wrote a 78-page plan to make them champions before they were born. He later says the same thing to Macci. This matches Williams’ own account...
After teenage tennis prodigy Jennifer Capriati is arrested for possession of marijuanaand is appearing increasingly vulnerable to burnout, Richard pulls Venus and Serena off the junior circuit even though Venus is storming up the rankings and being approached by agents, declaring they won’t play any more tournaments until they turn pro. Macci (alon...
When Venus enters her first pro tournament, the Bank of the West Classic in Oakland, at 14, she receives an offer of a $3 million contract from Nike, who want to build a brand around her. Once again taking a contrarian view, Richard says they’re not going to accept the first offer they receive, although Macci, who brokered the deal, warns him that ...
Richard tells Macci that the girls’ education comes first and that Venus speaks four languages because “Venus don’t want to be broke.” While in junior high, Williams, a straight-A student, studied French and German, later learning Italian, which in 2019 she described as “my best language,”adding “the surprising language that I know a decent amount ...
Richard and Brandy have a big fight during which Brandy says Richard seems to think he’s created the girls’ success all by himself, ignoring the crucial role she’s played. When Richard walks out of the room, she reminds him that that’s what he does—walk away from failed businesses and his other kids, recalling her surprise when a long-lost son of R...
- Ellin Stein
In addition to their tennis winnings, both Venus and Serena have signed lucrative endorsement contracts. In 2003, Venus signed a five-year endorsement deal worth forty million dollars with Reebok, reported to be the richest contract ever for a female athlete.
Sep 24, 2021 · The self-proclaimed “James Bond” (who once said that he covertly negotiated arms deals for the Israeli government in the 1960s) took serve against “ King Richard,” the hands-on father who leveraged his elder daughter, Venus, an eight-figure endorsement deal with Reebok in 1995.
- Aaron Dodson
Aug 11, 2022 · By 2000, Richard was no longer having to negotiate on his daughter’s behalf: Serena was represented by agent Jill Smoller, following her from IMG to William Morris Agency and then back to...
Jun 2, 2024 · So far, so good: Venus has a reported five-year, $12 million contract with Reebok, and Serena has recently signed an agreement with Puma.
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Success soon followed. By 1999, Serena was already sponsored by Puma. The following year, Venus signed a record-breaking $40 million endorsement contract with Reebok, a deal celebrated as a sign of growing gender parity in professional sports.
