{"id":42553,"date":"2018-09-07T00:53:36","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T00:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=42553"},"modified":"2018-09-07T13:55:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T13:55:23","slug":"the-sisters-and-their-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=42553","title":{"rendered":"The sisters and their men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Williams sisters at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=42316\">this year&#8217;s Open<\/a>, her husband, her boyfriend (wearing a Harvard Law t shirt) and their family.<\/p>\n<p>And their father Richard, not in the player&#8217;s box but being mentioned often. Nike runs a commercial showing Richard teaching Serena when she was a little girl, by saying, &#8220;&#8230; you&#8217;re in US Open &#8230;&#8221; And the commentators are hipping praise on him like never before &#8211; at least I didn&#8217;t hear. This comes as a little surprise, although I think Richard is very deserving.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-31-at-9.15.36-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-42554\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-31-at-9.15.36-PM-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-06-at-8.28.55-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-42555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-06-at-8.28.55-PM-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-06-at-7.39.59-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-42556\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-06-at-7.39.59-PM-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-06-at-8.13.56-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-42557\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-06-at-8.13.56-PM-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-06-at-7.39.54-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-42558\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-06-at-7.39.54-PM-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-06-at-8.29.25-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-42559\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-06-at-8.29.25-PM-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A rare audience with Richard Williams <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1wbJabeRI8U\">on youtube<\/a> from 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Williams sisters at this year&#8217;s Open, her husband, her boyfriend (wearing a Harvard Law t shirt) and their family. And their father Richard, not in the player&#8217;s box but being mentioned often. Nike runs a commercial showing Richard teaching Serena when she was a little girl, by saying, &#8220;&#8230; you&#8217;re in US Open &#8230;&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}