World number one Serena Williams shared to the media that she’s still playing her best tennis even in her thirties due to the solid foundation built by her father for her and elder sister, venus Williams. Richard Williams has been the coach of Venus and Serena since they were young and still guides them presently.
“Well, I think that just, I mean, everyone who in the past may have said my dad wasn’t a good coach, obviously the results spoke for themselves between myself and Venus. And, you know, multiple Grand Slam titles that we have won is just I wouldn’t have won a single title without him and without his backing. I think that theory went out the door years and years ago, maybe over a decade ago. But, yeah, he’s just great. He’s a great coach. Even to this day. He wrote me something just the other day, and I just really meditated on it and I thought about it, and I thought, This is what I need to do, and it really helped me out during the match.”
“Well, he’s just so innovative, and I think one of the reasons I’m still playing some of the best tennis at 30 is because he built my game and my sister’s game. He gave us a good foundation. So to say he built our foundation it was solid and it wasn’t weak, so we were always able to grow our game. So I think that can’t really been said about a lot of people in their career.”
Comparing her dad with her current coach, Patrick Mouratoglou, Serena commented, “I think their personalities are completely different. But, yeah, one of the main reasons I was able to work with Patrick is because he was telling me a lot of the same things that my father told me. I think that had he told me something opposite or something different or, you know, he wasn’t just doing almost, you know, similar stuff, I would not be able to work with that because I just wouldn’t accept it.”
