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On March 28, Beijing time, a jaw-dropping scene occurred at the 94th Academy Awards. Famous actor Will Smith was dissatisfied with the host Chris Smith. Locke joked about his wife's head and rushed to the stage to give it to Chris. Locke slapped. It is worth mentioning that after about half an hour, Will Smith took the stage again and won his first Oscar for best actor. The film he earned him this little golden man is called "King Richard", which tells the story of the famous tennis sisters Williams and their father Richard.
In the film King Richard, Will Smith plays Richard, the father of the Williams sisters.
In 1942, Richard Williams was born in Louisiana, USA. Despite his extremely poor family, as a young man Richard was very conceited, considering himself louisiana's best golfer, the best American football player, and the second best basketball player. However, this was not the case, and after graduating from high school, Richard had to go to Chicago to make a living as a construction worker. He then moved to Los Angeles to start a security business, where he got married and had children. Once, when Richard saw Romanian women's tennis player Virginia Lopez on television, he was on tv. When Rousic won the $40,000 championship prize, he remembered his unsurpassed sports dreams. At the same time, he sees this as a quick way for children to make a class jump. So he made up his mind to make his daughter a professional tennis player, and Richard wrote a 78-page so-called "championship plan."
Of Richard's five children, Venus Williams (Dawei) and Serena Williams (Serena Williams) has the most outstanding tennis talent. Under the supervision of "Tiger Daddy" Richard, after the age of four, David's childhood was almost always spent on the tennis court. Every day before 6 o'clock, the two must get up. Because Richard asked them to go to the tennis court for some training before going to school, after school, the two had almost no leisure time, because they would be taken directly back to the tennis court by Richard. It is worth mentioning that in Los Angeles, the public tennis court was also the territory of the local underworld, but Richard trained his daughters in the gang's gunfight and called himself "King Richard" without hesitation. In addition to the strenuous training, in order to prevent the two from falling in love early, Richard also strictly forbade his daughters from dating, and once threw away the doll that Dawei brought home.
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In order to be well-known coach Rick · Training at March's tennis academy, Richard spent a fortune to relocate his family to West Palm Beach, Florida, at the age of 10. Two years later, Richard's "investment" finally paid off, and Williams was invincible in the youth tournaments organized by the American Tennis Association, achieving a staggering record of 63 wins and 0 losses, a tennis superstar about to rise, and soon after, agents and sponsors also flocked to the scene. Faced with the temptation of a large number of banknotes, Richard kept a clear head, and for the sake of his daughters' future considerations, he decided not to let Big Wei participate in the youth competition prematurely, but to focus on his studies. Because he believes that only with a better education, his daughters' future will be happier and happier.
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It wasn't until he was 14 years old that Dawei returned to the game. At WTA Auckland, she made her professional tour debut and became famous in one game. In the second round, Dawei was at one point ahead of sanchez Sánchez, who was then ranked second in the world. Vicario, although eventually reversed by his opponents, the supernova still attracted a lot of attention from the outside world. That year, reebok, a well-known sports brand, offered Dawei a large endorsement contract of $12 million. Still, as Richard said in his early years, "Venus (Dawei) should be inducted into the Tennis Hall of Fame, and Serena (Serena) should be better than her." In 1999, Serena won the US Open before her sister, and a year later Dawei also won the Wimbledon championship. After Dawei's victory, Richard Jumped on the NBC radio seat and danced...
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In the 21st century, Big and Small wei ushered in the golden age of their careers. As of 2021, Dawei has won 7 Grand Slam singles titles with a total prize money of more than $42 million, and Serena Williams's achievements are even more amazing, her Grand Slam singles titles have reached a staggering 23, winning nearly hundreds of millions of dollars in prize money, and the two have won 9 Grand Slam women's doubles titles together. In 2021, the film "King Richard", based on Richard and Williams sisters, was brought to the screen, and Will Lee, who played Richard, was released to the screen. Smith also won his first Oscar for Best Actor for this role. For Richard's approach to education, Will Smith commented: "In my opinion, Richard is not at all dismissive of tennis, he is using tennis to cultivate the values of his children and change his family. And what do you think of Richard's "Tiger Daddy" approach to training?
Now Serena has brought her young daughter to the tennis court (image from Serena's personal social media)