Serena Williams and Venus Williams mourns Dad “Richard Williams

Richard Williams passed on in the early hours of today. It was made known by a very close friend of the family. He will be greatly missed.

Full name
Richard Dove Williams Jr.
Born
February 14, 1942 (age 81)
Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S.
Coaching career (1994–2024)
Venus Williams, Serena Williams

Williams is the eldest of five children and the only son of Julia Mae (née Metcalf) and Richard Dove Williams of Shreveport, Louisiana. His younger sisters are Pat, Barbara, Penny, and Faye. After graduating from high school he moved to Saginaw, Michigan and then to California.

Born in Shreveport, Louisiana, to a family of sharecroppers, Richard Williams had childhood experiences with racism.He has been open about his difficult childhood and experiences with racism and has credited his faith as a source of strength throughout each season of his life. Williams has been married three times and has nine children.

Prior to meeting his future wife Oracene Price in the 1970s, Williams moved to Saginaw, Michigan, then California, and met his first wife Betty Johnson. Johnson and Williams married in 1965 and had five children, three sons and two daughters: Sabrina, Richard III, Ronner, Reluss, and Reneeka, who were raised alongside Betty’s other daughter, Katrina. Williams and Johnson divorced in 1973 after Williams walked out on the family never to return under the lie that he was going to get Sabrina a bike.[citation needed]

In 1979, he met Oracene “Brandy” Price, who had three daughters from a previous relationship in California, and they married in 1980. They had two daughters, Venus (born June 17, 1980) and Serena (born
He will be greatly missed by many and the whole tennis World, rest on Richard.