Richard Williams Net Worth 2023 – Income, Daughters, Career

Richard Williams Net Worth is estimated to be around $10 Million in 2023. He is a popular American tennis coach. He is well known for being the father of two professional tennis stars, Venus and Serena Williams.

Richard Williams came to the limelight on November 19, 2021, when he and his two daughter’s story-based biographical film “King Richard” starring Will Smith was released.

The legendary coach has trained several tennis players in his career and earned huge fame across the world. Even when it comes to the top Tennis coaches in the world then the first name that comes to our mind is Richard Williams. As a tennis coach, he is not as active in the profession anymore. 

Here we will be talking about the total Net Worth of Richard Williams his source of income, earnings, family, assets, lifestyle, career, biography, and more.

Richard Williams Net Worth:

As per the news of some sites, Richard Williams Net Worth is $10 Million in the US in 2023. He already has earned a vast chunk of money through his profession as a Tennis coach. In his career, he has also endorsed many fitness brands and commercials in which Richard took a massive amount of money.

After the success of his daughters, he developed an interest in other things like photography and writing. Like in 2014, Richard co-authored a book called ‘Black and White: The Way I See It’. Currently, Richard Williams is making more than $400,000 a year.

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Early Life:

Richard Dove Williams Jr. was born on February 14, 1942, in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States, He is 81 years old. His mother’s name is Julia Mae Metcalf, Richard is the only son of his parents.

He has four younger sisters including, Pat, Barbara, Penny, and Faye. After completing his high school graduation Richard moved to  Saginaw, Michigan, and then eventually settled in California.

Career:

Richard Williams started his journey to take tennis lessons from a man named “Old Whiskey”. And he decided his future daughters would be tennis professional stars after seeing the success of former Romanian tennis player, Virginia Ruzici on TV.

After deciding on the future of his daughters he planned an 85-page plan, and then he began giving tennis lessons to his daughters Venus and Serena. Richard started taking his daughters to the public tennis courts when Venus and Serena were four and a half years old.

Over time, his daughters participated in the Shreveport tennis tournaments. In 1995, Richard took them out of a tennis academy and started coaching classes himself.

The big moment of his career was when his daughter Serena won the US Open in 1999 and his oldest daughter, Venus got the 2000 Wimbledon title by beating Lindsay Davenport.

On November 19, 2021, Richard Williams’s ‘ biographical film ‘King Richard’ was released on HBO Max. The film was a real-life story of Williams and about his daughters and how he turned his daughter’s life into Tennis stars.

Personal Life:

Richard Williams was in a relationship three times in his life. In 1995 He first got married to Betty Johnson with whom he have five children. Then in 1973, he decided to get divorced from his first wife Betty Johnson.

In 1980, Richard married Oracene “Brandy” Price. He had two daughters, Venus and Serena Williams from his second wife. Unfortunately in 2002, Williams and Oracene decided to get a divorce.

In 2010, He got married to Lakeisha Juanita Graham who was the owner of a grocery shop. In 2012, they both welcomed their son named Dylan. Due to some reasons in 2017, Williams and his third wife Lakeisha decided to get separated with a divorce.

Despite all of this in July 2016, Richard suffered a stroke, and according to his wife Lakeisha who declared that his condition was stable but he went on to experience additional strokes.

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