"My dad was way before his time" says Serena Williams

Serena Williams and Venus Williams are the most successful tennis siblings of all time and it's hard to see how anybody will ever eclipse that. Younger sister Serena is widely regarded as the greatest female tennis player of all time and both she and Venus credited their father with their success. Talking about her father she said:

"My dad was and still is way before his time. You see, when someone is different – when they don’t act or look how a person assumed they would – the first reaction is often fear. They think, How do we break them? My dad anticipated that, but he would not allow himself or his family to be broken.”

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