Behind every great sportsman hides a trainer. For Serena Williams, who some consider the greatest tennis player of all time, this man is none other than her father, Richard. His life has also inspired a film that will be released soon and in which Will Smith plays him on screen. Known for being very tough on his two daughters, Serena and Venus, he managed to make them two champions who dominated women’s tennis for many years.
If today the health of the one nicknamed King Richard is quite precarious, since a stroke in 2016, he remains close to his daughter Serena, as she showed on Instagram recently. The 40-year-old sportswoman uploaded a short video that was popular with her 13.8 million subscribers. We see his daughter Olympia take their first steps on a bicycle. A moment always moving for the parents and an obligatory passage for many children. The little girl born in September 2017 is still in her infancy and she obviously still has the small wheels hanging on the sides.
As Serena Williams’ daughter walks quietly along an alley, we end up seeing her grandfather Richard, phone in hand, filming his granddaughter. Although we haven’t heard much from him for a while, he seems in good shape and doesn’t hesitate to cheer on Olympia for his first pedal strokes. “A rare appearance, the one and only GOAT [le meilleur de tous les temps, NDLR] still cheering on his troops … King Richard, but I call him daddy “, writes Serena Williams in commentary on her post, already liked more than 138,000 times in less than 12 hours.