Club Shay Shay - Serena & Venus Williams

Episode Date: November 18, 2021

On episode 40, Shannon welcomes in two of the greatest tennis players of all time: Serena & Venus Williams. The Williams sisters discuss the new film King Richard, which is based on their upbringing in Compton. They tell Shannon why it was so important to tell their origin story through the lens of their father, portrayed on screen by Will Smith. This is a can’t-miss conversation for insight into both the making of the film and the lives of two tennis legends. #KingRichard in Theaters and on HBOMax November 19th. GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!Listen & subscribe to more FOX Sports podcasts: http://sprtspod.fox/applepodcasts#DoSomethinB4TwoSomethin & Follow Club Shay Shay:                                                                 https://www.instagram.com/clubshayshayhttps://twitter.com/clubshayshayhttps://www.facebook.com/clubshayshayhttps://www.youtube.com/c/clubshayshay Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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all my life been grinding all my life sacrifice hustle paid the price want a slice got the roll of dice that's why all my life i've been grinding all my life your father is your OG of girl dads. We see this a lot now. Everybody's talking about girl dad. Oh, he's really a girl dad. Hashtag girl dad. Talk to us a little bit about your father.

Because I think what was portrayed of him, he was very protective of you. He didn't let anybody speak sideways to you or about you. And if he heard anybody, even the commentators, even the interviewers, because Venus, I remember he checked someone that was trying to question your confidence at a tournament. So I remember that very, very big. Yeah, I think that it went viral for the last couple of years. So interesting. But I think people love that because it's good to see kids being protected by their, their dad. So it's definitely a dad and daughter moment. And yeah, yeah, it's super special.

Yeah, and it's good to see, especially black kids be protected by their fathers, because that's not a story that we often see. And it's a story that's not told enough. And it happens, as you know, it happens a lot. But that aspect of a black man and a black father is never told. And so everything that he's done for our family and, you know, just is such a good story overall of just telling it as a black man. And I really appreciate how it was told.

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And who doesn't want that? Listen now on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Did you guys ever think your father was too hard on you? Was this too much? Were you practicing too long? I mean, this is ridiculous. No, I don't think those words came out of our mouth. We loved what we do, you know?

And we, it was, he made it fun. And, you know, obviously there are days you don't want to go to practice. There's still days I don't want to show up to practice. But you just do it because it's like what you have to do because you know what you if you if you want to reach a goal then you have to work to reach the goal you just can't sit at home so but my dad was always um just so innovative and so amazing to work with and also still to this day his brain like moves at a way faster pace than anyone i ever met and um but he's also the most loving dad and um the most caring dad and yeah he it's it's really it's we we just feel really special i think we're just happy to have a relationship with our

family that we do have and we don't sit back and think about tennis too often it's what we do but when we put the racket down we put the racket down and we're just fortunate to have that beautiful support and just a regular family when we put the racket right you know it's really good that's what we like about this the film it also captures this family aspect of the movie and we we're all so close, you know? It's just like everything we do, we want to do it as a family. We want to always have just time together. And, you know, it's so amazing that everything

that Venus and I have been through, every championship we've won, everything we've done, it never changed our bond as sisters and our bond as a family unit. And, you know, we are really appreciative of everything because all our sisters were there for every part of the way as well. And, yeah, so it's really good to see that we stick to our roots no matter what. When did you realize that we're special and we're going to do really great things?

Well, early on, our parents told us that's what we would do. And obviously we put a lot of work in behind it, but when you're a kid and your parents are feeding you this information, who knows? So thankfully we had all that positive feedback going straight in. Did you play any other sports besides tennis growing up? We ran track for a little while. Yeah, that's not in the film, but we were encouraged to know who we were off of the court. So that was more of a personal journey of do pursue things that you love, but tennis was always at the forefront. We'll be right back. Wake up with football every morning and listen to my new podcast, NFL Daily with Greg Rosenthal.

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