Serena Williams at 12 years of age.

Serena Williams and her father teaching kids how to play tennis. In this video Serena Williams is 12 years old.

[@malloryemclaren]

And now she's made a permanent impression upon history. Just WOW. So much love and respect for them all.

[@javierjavier9841]

SHE ??? JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAA !!!

[@juztryinnabehonest99]

JAVIER JAVIER yes Javier, SHE. 😇

[@capoman1]

She sounds so mature at 12. She has the same voice as now lol.

[@toddrockett7887]

I was thinking the same.

[@chutinonkhuntong6120]

I gree lol

[@nalimlattarai2873]

Marko Jay huh

[@Davey0303]

Why are people trying to find negative things to say it is so shameful...this is a wonderful clip that shows why serena think education is important

[@johnng5016]

As father of 2, I have the utmost respect for Richard’s relentless dedication to his kids and planning their journey to greatness at such a young age.

[@rabeo29]

He made a good point about athletes earning money with no education or plan. If you have no respect for money and how best to invest, save and use it, then you being a millionaire just because you're a successful athlete might not end well. Its like many of those boxers; they earnt 100's of millions, so much more than the average person would earn in a lifetime, yet they some how end up bankrupt.

[@caseysanders6166]

Serena is the world's best tennis player I love that she gives what she thinks I agree with everything she says that is why she is number 1 in the world

[@wallywallyincomefree9006]

Casey Sanders She is not the best tennis player in the world, however she is the greatest tennis player of all time

[@kennyg1358]

Not even in the top 200

[@nalimlattarai2873]

Anca S su mex

[@tehDalahast]

This was really enjoyable for my right ear.

[@gdome14]

hey serena i think i love your dad...what a great man... individual accomplishment needs more than one persons acknowledgement.. congratulations on many aspects on successful living.

[@marciamilbanks4264]

How wonderful. Serena and Venus are so fortunate. They are family-oriented, spiritually-devout, humorous, kind, highly skilled, intelligent, and multi-talented. And they have their parents, in part, to thank for bringing them up to have those marvelous attributes. Richard Williams is a genius! And their mom, Brandi, is great, too!

[@NH7Nico]

I think this guy will be a good tennis player

[@AssasinDoesPvP]

She's gonna be good when she's older

[@albertozerain1115]

What a good looking family, straight hair, pointy noses etc

[@iloveryanbaker]

omg serena sounds EXACTLY the same

[@wowS123]

Holy i thought that was a guy, and after hearing her voice oh snap, thats serena.

[@jezstarrr]

it is a guy

[@jjmaster0113pro]

It is a man

[@arathgomez615]

JahmaiSoFly men don’t give birth, or get fat after pregnancy dummy.

[@hensmom6473]

Williams brothers NOT sisters

[@ollie708]

Great genes this Williams. And don't forget mother Williams.

[@benfucrin4217]

Great estrogen drugs, too.

[@VLyricParker]

They adopted smh

[@radvlad1431]

Cool seeing Sereno when he was a young boy

[@marciamilbanks4264]

Serena's the greatest! We LOVE her and her family! Go, Serena! Go, Venus! Goooo, Williams! Goooo, USA!

[@zebulonnike]

look at serena's technique- so good!!!

[@juztryinnabehonest99]

Ill-educated and ill-bred people will always bash the Williams sisters. 😇

[@nalimlattarai2873]

alex j how

[@mikeroch4432]

if she was 12 at 2009, now she's a 15 YEAR OLD PRO?! WOW! time goes quick these days...

[@serginaru]

She was huge at that age!! I mean she is like 1.70

[@benfucrin4217]

That's because she was born male.

[@umarubarrie8639]

Sergio Denis true

[@umarubarrie8639]

Ben Fucrin STOP IT U A MAN

[@AnastasiaLUVSU]

@@umarubarrie8639 And so is Serena and venus.

[@HenriLaporte-kv6qq]

@@benfucrin4217 And you were born freaking stupid and still are

[@jessicawashburn383]

Some handsome young American man should have married her by now. They could have started raising superhero children in a couple of years!

[@letyjay9715]

well happy to report from the future, and american put a ring on it! @2017..YOLO

[@benfucrin4217]

Why would American men want to marry a man unless they're gay?

[@AnastasiaLUVSU]

@@benfucrin4217 a gay white man married him. They're hitting 2 birds with one stone there. Gay agenda and interracial agenda.

[@solitudeinarctic787]

historic video!!! GOAT Serena

[@frankbeff]

SERENA I LOVE YOUUUUU

[@oyemayowa]

Not sure why Richard continue to suggest that they were poor. They had way too many mouths to feed. Yes. That was their choice. Richard earned 60,000 a year and his wife was a registered nurse. No. They were not poor. It makes for a good story though.

[@luwakw01]

Vincent Oyemayowa Sanwo but they lived in Compton. My parents came from Nigeria and we weren't poor... but we lived in inner city NYC in the 90s, and i had no choice but to attend poor- performing public schools with low income black kids, because even tho mom was a nurse and dad was a teacher, we still couldn't afford to move into a better neighborhood with better performing public schools. 1. starting from scratch, we simply didn't have enough $$ to move into a white middle-class neighborhood (those homes cost around $750,000, and are mostly 1-family homes, so u can't even rent out a portion to help pay the mortgage). Most middle class white families had the benefit of generational wealth that allowed them to inherit their homes, and 2. red lining was rampant in real estate. Ppl didn't rent or sell to blacks, and there were ZERO integrated neighborhoods. A middle class income can help sustain a family, but it's not enough to make that initial home purchase. you'd have to be upper middle class to pull that off. So even if you make money, if you can't get out the low income neighborhood, you're still subjected to all the obstacles that arise from living in a poor area (insecurity, subpar education, no afterschool programs = bad crowds of kids/ rampant gang culture, drugs in the community...)

[@hensmom6473]

Makes a better story

[@desertbeatzcomenightfall5480]

the queen of tennis

[@foritisi]

Go Serena go!

[@brotherben26]

My right ear enjoyed this/

[@anthonypepe3486]

amazing family - their legacy will endure for generations.

[@shanabbas]

serena is at least 17 or 18 years old in this video not 12

[@secrets.295]

Who would have thought she would be Steffi Graf record of 22 GS.

[@marciamilbanks4264]

Martina Hingis said that Richard Williams has a great serve, too.

[@WatchMaDougie]

i was watching ellen. how did i get here? :D but i love serena

[@goldxmind6522]

notice the same people calling serena a man even in a video clearly showing her as a 12 year old girl, are the same people who will vote for Trump or take offense to a black lives matter sign and feel threatened by any strengthening of others they don't relate to. lmao

[@AnastasiaLUVSU]

GoldxMind Its a man. both of them.

[@keepitreal4342]

seriuosly. there are things you cannot change about men even with a sex change. ask bruce jenner. these are boys.

[@renahopson8851]

GoldxMind they were surgically made sterile, they were boys

[@renahopson8851]

There father was greedy and knew making them girls would make it more possible to win

[@jennyzhang2259]

You're making me confused. If they are sterile, then how did Serena have a daughter?

[@renahopson8851]

Notice the denial coming from people who are ignoring abuse

[@transklutz]

Education is for the birds. I got education and no job. Should have focused on tennis instead!

[@jessicawashburn383]

Serena is a little girl in the video and she was well-spoken then.

[@vachekipu]

the legends of tennis !!! serena has a career golden grand slam...she is better than over hyped maria sharapova..maria sharapova never lived up to the hype and will end like justin henin

[@NikeSoccerTennis]

In her case, "Tennis first, then education".

[@Wow_sheng_yi_pian]

Great！

[@j2hsieh]

she looks like 50 cent

[@hensmom6473]

She is a dude

[@LukiQueen]

It was a sarcastic JOKE!!!!! i'm the biggest fan of Queen Serena. I was just being ironic about one of the best in history

[@jessicawashburn383]

?! She wasn't huge at all. She was actually pretty slender. And even today she is just 5'9". Sharapova is 6'2"!!

[@lawrenceporter7453]

jessica washburn are you crazy both those amazons are 6 feet tall

[@stevennieves8308]

Lawrence Porter Nope. Steffi Graf is actually a little taller than Serena Williams. Serena Williams is about 5'9-5'10. Steffi Graf's about an inch or an inch & a half taller than Serena. I've seen them standing next to one another at the net after their 1999 Indian Wells final.

[@hollodot]

YOUR LISTENING IN HEADPHONES, WITH 1 EAR IN HUH?

[@NehemiahsMusic1]

Thats a gap and a half I thought mine was bad lol um a serena fan so dont thumbs me down lol

[@pablocarino]

who is the male anchor?

[@yuihongta]

Hey Serena! US Open 2009 =o=

[@inventthefuture8895]

Anyone where can I get break down of what serena did as far as training instructors etc. from age 8 to 13 ??? why cant I find this info anyway??

[@Fishkeeper59]

+Invent the future Check with the FBI. If they don't have, definitely try the NSA since they have files on all Americans since birth.. Google Akwei VS NSA..

[@inventthefuture8895]

Fishkeeper59 That's racist

[@Rosengendo]

+Fishkeeper59 bad reply

[@term2000]

A great start in her childhood.

[@Davey0303]

We have an american in the top 10

[@verasani1794]

Naturally females 👩👧

[@AnastasiaLUVSU]

Naturally males.

[@katlegondaba1101]

Take it whatever you want anything that will make you feel better about yourself, and sleep well at night

[@marciamilbanks4264]

?! Dusty Boyer, Richard Williams is no "psycho!" One of the early (white) coaches of the Williams sisters (when they were children) wrote a book in which he states that the Williams sisters were the most POLITE children he'd ever coached --and he'd coached HUNDREDS of children. The coach gave a lot of credit to Mr. Williams who he said would stop Venus and Serena from practicing for weeks at a time to take the family to Disney World and the like because he wanted them to have happy childhoods.

[@SatanPanda]

If we had more fathers that made you play tennis instead of going to school like the Eastern Europeans do, maybe we'd have an american in the top 10.

[@trommelbiel]

cool.

[@Tunis10]

LOVE SERENA , LOVE RICHARDS !

[@tehDalahast]

Wow, I didn't think it was _that_ amusing. o_o

[@roter13]

serena volleys better then then she does now.

[@CulturedWhiteBoy]

+roter13 You should try that education thing too.

[@jalanmills]

imagine if the Williams sisters were Williams brothers.

[@mmsharif007]

You ain’t wrong

[@marciamilbanks4264]

Stargate669, there are many middle class families in that area. Richard Williams himself was a security company manager/owner and Brandi Williams was a nurse. The Williamses were middle class -- but maybe "deprived" compared to what they have now. :-) One of Venus's and Serena's older sisters had a summer job in a clothing store and got to spend some of her earnings on "cute clothes for school" and save the rest. Sounds like the family was far from starving! One of their sisters is a lawyer.

[@springfield03sniper]

Yeh she should be 1. After all, she beats all the top 5 players easily. She killed azarenka on her worst surface, and would love to play sharapova with the shakey service games.

[@Oryem]

that is so freaky that newsreader looks just like my dad

[@FLRANGER13]

yes ive met him too congrats lol yes hes a psycho ive been to the us open 10 years in a row and the2 sisters r the only 2 that wont sign cuz the dad makes them not thats not crazy at all huh?

[@austinap5]

if the USTSA was smart, theyd be knocking on the doors of richard williams and oracene prices to help develop more american juniors. they produced two of the greatest tennis players of all time from the same home. they are tennis geniuses.

[@Ale502703]

thats serena :O!!? she was a lot darker

[@waritolfactive]

@Perryloope king sized..lol!

[@nicolecarranza1774]

coooooooooooooooooolllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

[@iamaznndiamproud]

actually you can get scholarships there...

[@giannirdg]

a good role model?

[@marciamilbanks4264]

Dusty Boyer,Mr.Richard Williams is not "psycho!" The Williams' sisters 3rd coach, after their dad (1) and their mom (2), was a white coach who was highly sought after. That coach wrote a book in which he stated that Richard Williams was a great father who stopped the girls from practicing for weeks at a time so he could take the entire family to Disney World.He wanted them to have happy childhoods.The coach also stated that the Williams sisters were the most POLITE children he'd ever coached!

[@haywood16]

White guy Macci trained her not Richard Williams

[@HenriLaporte-kv6qq]

You are such an idio...

[@bamibalboy]

@DIANAROSS4EVER dude, thats impossible:O

[@bmwf1joel]

great job dad

[@nomibe2911]

@haywood16 Richard Williams sold his business to devote his time to his daughters. Thw Williams sisters was in Macci's academy and last time I checked that shit wasn't free. You think they didn't have to pay

[@3dRoma3d]

This is exactly why you shouldnt judge a book by its cover when your young. She wasnt the cutest girl then but she looks hella sexy now and shes wealthy and smart. so all you kids dont make fun cause you never know!

[@jessicawashburn383]

?! Serena and Venus focused on education AND tennis. They were both Honors students. Venus graduated from a prestigious design college with HONORS. They're father emphasized education and his daughters are the better for it. Serena and Venus both have successful design companies.

[@nicolecarranza1774]

123456789 i'm still counting

[@TheHellyeah14]

Her voice hasn't changed much...weird.

[@AnastasiaLUVSU]

Cause it's a male.

[@BuhhoBuhho]

Well she is a strong independent black woman who dont need no man. Duh.

[@marciamilbanks4264]

Perhaps YOU need to take a moment to DIGEST the posts before answering.

[@STBR247]

left ear

[@blackknight1129]

Everyone is weird-looking as a teenager

[@leeantony]

You must be blind. She is nowhere near 17 or 18 in this video. lol

[@Arckitekt]

how to always use a cover story

[@lolgirl22100]

Can anyone hear anything

[@takhilah1]

This is a girl u dummies. More like a tom girl thou..

[@davisonbarbera]

serena is only 1 year yunger then venus.

[@mikerad7424]

Rick Macci paid for everything and was their coach, left that part out.

[@kaitlynmarshbanks6754]

?!? That was an innocent 12 year-old child! If you're crazy enough to have a "problem" with something as superficial as "looks," take it up with GOD, who made her!

[@TainaraTyler]

anww

[@2supermaro]

you need to work on your jokes

[@LukiQueen]

I think this girl has no future