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IMAGE: Serena Williams and Venus William. Photograph: Patrick Mouratoglou/Facebook In a week that has seen a reshaping of golf's landscape a new player emerged on Thursday with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, Serena and Venus Williams securing the first franchise in the TGL, the tech-forward team golf league developed by Tiger Woods. The announcement of a merger between the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and Saudi-backed LIV Golf into one unified commercial entity on Tuesday shook golf and Ohanian and his tennis Hall of Fame wife Serena believe the TGL and their Los Angeles Golf Club team could also attract younger fans. "I knew I wanted to do this team and I knew I wanted to bring Serena in so I was like, babe come on board," Ohanian told Reuters. "When I told her I was going to start another team she was like, seriously." Photograph: Kind Courtesy Serena Williams/Instagram Ohanian, Serena and her sister Venus are the first of what will be six team ownership groups that will make up TGL, an innovative, new primetime golf league that fuses technology and live action. Teams will be made up of three players and feature some of the PGA Tour's biggest names who will compete in a purpose-built arena in Palm Beach, Florida. Players who have committed to the project include 15-times major winner Woods, Masters champion Jon Rahm and four-times major winner Rory McIlroy. The regular season, which begins in January, will have 15 matches followed by the semi-finals and finals. "I like the...

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• Share to Facebook • Share to Twitter • Share to Linkedin Topline The Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy-backed golf league, TGL, announced Thursday that tennis stars Venus Williams and Serena Williams, along with Serena’s husband and venture capitalist Alexis Ohanian, purchased a team called the Los Angeles Golf Club—marking the formation of the league’s first team just seven months before it is planned to launch.

All the siblings shared a tight bond while growing up and their closeness has only grown over the years. With the Williams sisters being world-famous athletes, there's a lot of interest in their personal lives as well. The recent film "King Richard," based on the role Richard Williams had in the life of Venus and Serena Williams has once again piqued the public's curiosity about the Williams family. Let's find out more about Venus and Serena Williams' siblings. Yetunde Price The eldest half-sister of the Williams sisters, Yetunde Price, was a salon owner and a registered nurse. She also worked as a personal assistant to Venus and Serena Williams. Unfortunately, she was The death of their sister had a major impact on the family. The Williams sisters opened the "Yetunde Price Resource Center," a community center to honor their deceased sister, in 2016. Venus and Serena Williams 2017 Australian Open. Before Richard Williams married Oracene Price, he was married to Betty Johnson and had five children with her - Sabrina, Richard III, Ronner, Reluss, and Reneeka. Sabrina Williams is currently Williams and Price divorced in 2002. In 2010, he married Lakeisha Graham and had a son, Dylan, with her in 2012. They divorced in 2017. Williams also has another son, Chavoita LeSane, outside of his marriages.

S erena Williams often says there would be no her without Venus. So if this was indeed their last tournament together, it is fitting that they went out in the doubles on Thursday night in the same manner as they arrived more than two decades ago: as a team – The Williams sisters. After they retire officially, you’ll find them on the pages of sports, business, health, fitness and fashion magazines. The Williams sisters transcend sports. They’ve and doubles? Gone. The first black women to win grand slam titles in singles, doubles and mixed doubles? Gone. The first black women ranked No 1? Gone. Read more What’s left is a sports legacy unequalled in its impact and cultural significance. The Williams sisters changed how the game is played and who is playing the game. Forty-one years passed between Althea Gibson winning her last grand slam title and Serena winning her first. Today, four black women playing at this year’s US Open have a combined 35 grand slam singles titles. Venus has five Olympic medals (one silver, four gold), the most won by any tennis player, male or female, in the Open era. Serena ranks second, with four gold medals. They are a perfect 14-0 in grand slam doubles finals. Black women – Serena (23), Venus (seven) and Osaka (four) – hold the top three spots on the list of most major titles among active female players. There were more black women in the main draw at the 2022 US Open than there were African Americans Venus and Serena Indeed, Venus and Serena may ...

The famous Williams sisters, Venus and Serena Williams, were both groomed from a very young age to become the best athletes the tennis world had ever seen. With some help from their father, Richard Williams, who was a tennis novice himself, they trained relentlessly on dimly lit tennis courts in their hometown of Compton, Calif. The circumstances surrounding life in their gritty neighborhood could've stripped them of their dreams and aspirations, but their father wouldn't allow the sisters to settle for anything short of becoming champions. After being amazed by how much money tennis stars were raking in, Venus Williams and Serena Williams' dad, Richard Williams, taught himself how to play the game by watching instructional videos, before passing on the knowledge to his two young daughters. To achieve his dream of raising two of the most talented tennis stars, the young Williams sisters spent hours, day after day, practicing the game on tennis courts in the gang-infested city of Compton, Calif. According to the The Independent, Serena and Venus' home court was "littered with drug addicts' syringes," and it was far too common for the tennis hopefuls to hear random gunfire while training. Despite the grave and scary conditions that would've prompted most people to give up the outdoor sport for good, the Williams family had success on their minds, and their years of training and dedication eventually paid off. Richard went on to be inducted into the American Tennis Associatio...

2 Venus Williams, Serena Williams, and half-sister, Sabrina Williams Who are Venus and Serena Williams' siblings? The tennis stars have three half-sisters on their mother’s side, Yetunde, Lyndrea, and Isha Price. Yetunde Price, aged 31, died in 2003 after she was reportedly mistakenly killed in Compton near a suspected gang house. She was the oldest of the Price children, and at the time of her death, she was a mother of three, a nurse, and the owner of a hair salon. She also, at times, worked as a personal assistant for Serena and Venus. KEEPING THE FAITH Serena Williams' dad seeks religious support amid crumbling home fight Lyndrea Price, 44, works as a creative costumer for Venus' clothing brand, Eleven. Isha Price, 47, is an American lawyer and producer. She is one of the producers of 'King Richard,' a film following Serena and Venus also have at least 2 Serena Williams (L) with her sister Venus (R) and her father Richard (C) on March 13, 1999 Credit: AFP - Getty However, on August 9, 2022, "I’m turning 41 this month, and something’s got to give," she told the outlet. "I have never liked the word retirement. It doesn’t feel like a modern word to me. I’ve been thinking of this as a transition, but I want to be sensitive about how I use that word, which means something very specific and important to a community of people. "Maybe the best word to describe what I’m up to is evolution. I’m here to tell you that I’m evolving away from tennis, toward other things that are imp...

June 8 (Reuters) - In a week that has seen a reshaping of golf's landscape a new player emerged on Thursday with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, Serena and Venus Williams securing the first franchise in the TGL, the tech-forward team golf league developed by Tiger Woods. The announcement of a merger between the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and Saudi-backed LIV Golf into one unified commercial entity on Tuesday shook golf and Ohanian and his tennis Hall of Fame wife Serena believe the TGL and their Los Angeles Golf Club team could also attract younger fans. "I knew I wanted to do this team and I knew I wanted to bring Serena in so I was like, babe come on board," Ohanian told Reuters. "When I told her I was going to start another team she was like, seriously. "Then I told her what it was and she said that sounds amazing." Ohanian, Serena and her sister Venus are the first of what will be six team ownership groups that will make up TGL, an innovative, new primetime golf league that fuses technology and live action. Teams will be made up of three players and feature some of the PGA Tour's biggest names who will compete in a purpose-built arena in Palm Beach, Florida. Players who have committed to the project include 15-times major winner Woods, Masters champion Jon Rahm and four-times major winner Rory McIlroy. The regular season, which begins in January, will have 15 matches followed by the semi-finals and finals. "I like the simplicity of it and the fact the PGA Tour saying we...