Instead, he wanted to make it on his own. He realized that he no longer wanted to find success on the backs of his daughters. Without hesitation, I said to myself, 'I'm going to have two kids and put them in tennis.' From that time on, tennis consumed me." During the q on CBC interview, Richard said that as time went on, he realized he had the wrong concept. In his memoir, Black and White: The Way I See It, Richard writes, "I didn't think it was possible for anyone to make that kind of money in four days, especially a woman. It was then that he decided tennis would be the sport for his (not yet born) children.
That was my actual motivation." As stated earlier, he was amazed when he tuned in to see Romanian tennis star Virginia Ruzici win $40,000 for a four-day tournament. He told q on CBC that he realized, "You know, if I had two kids, I'd become rich. In his book, Richard says he chose the sport after discovering how much prize money even women could win at the time. No, this wasn't the reason he chose the sport for Venus and Serena. Yet, as we're told over the movie's end credits, reportedly nearly all of his initial plan has come true. It's true that most people thought he was crazy for being so determined that his children would become tennis superstars. "The ghetto will make you rough, it'll make you tough, it'll make you strong," Richard said. Key to the plan would be that his kids would be trained in one of the country's roughest areas, Compton, California. Richard viewed tennis as an avenue to success and prosperity for the family.
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In 1980, he decided to create the plan after turning on the TV and seeing 25-year-old Romanian tennis player Virginia Ruzici awarded $40,000 for winning a four-day tournament. A King Richard fact-check confirms that he wrote the 78-page blueprint for his children to become tennis stars before Venus and Serena were born. The real Richard Williams (left) in the early 1990s and actor Will Smith (right) in the movie.ĭid Richard Williams develop a 78-page plan for Venus and Serena's careers before they were even born?
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