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Serena Williams parents: Meet Richard Williams, Oracene Price

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Serena Jameka Williams is Considered among the greatest tennis players of all time, she was ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Women’s Tennis Association for 319 weeks, including a joint-record 186 consecutive weeks, and finished as the year-end No. 1 five times.

Williams is married to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. He proposed to her on December 10, 2016, in Rome. Williams announced their engagement in a Reddit post. They married on November 16, 2017, in New Orleans. Guests at the wedding included Beyoncé, Anna Wintour, Kelly Rowland and Kim Kardashian.

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Serena Williams’s parents: Meet Richard Williams, Oracene Price

Serena was born on September 26, 1981, in Saginaw, Michigan to Oracene Price and Richard Williams. She is the youngest of Price’s five daughters: half-sisters Yetunde, Lynda, and Isha Price, and full older sister Venus. She also has at least seven paternal half-siblings.

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Richard  Williams has been married three times. In 1979, he met Oracene “Brandy” Price, who had three daughters from a previous relationship. They married in 1980 and had two daughters, Venus (born June 17, 1980) and Serena (born September 26, 1981). The family resided in Compton, California. Richard and Oracene divorced in 2002.

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