{"id":286634,"date":"2025-11-16T11:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T11:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/286634\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T11:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T11:20:09","slug":"tennis-live-alcaraz-and-sinner-relationship-claim-amid-djokovic-scene-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/286634\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis LIVE: Alcaraz and Sinner relationship claim amid Djokovic scene | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serena Williams has revealed how her dad \u201ccrushed\u201d her dreams of making it in an entirely different sport. <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/serena-williams?pageNumber=2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Williams<\/a> is widely considered to be the greatest female <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tennis<\/a> star of all time, having left an indelible mark on the sport prior to her <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/1847766\/Serena-Williams-retirement-claim-tennis-court\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">retirement in 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old, from Compton, California, won an incredible <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/2042778\/serena-williams-grand-slams-jannik-sinner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">23 Grand Slam singles titles<\/a>, along with a further 14 women\u2019s Grand Slam doubles titles alongside her older sister, <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/venus-williams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Venus<\/a>. Her glittering career spanned almost four decades, having first picked up a racquet at the age of four and turned professional in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Their <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/entertainment\/films\/2076563\/phenomenal-biopic-tennis-legends-controversial\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dad, Richard<\/a>, home-schooled them as children and also acted as one of the sisters\u2019 official coaches, even pulling them out of Rick Macci\u2019s academy to coach them himself. His meticulous methods proved crucial in what his daughters went on to achieve, leaving them with very few regrets in the long term.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/2134480\/serena-williams-dad-richard-tennis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serena Williams has revealed how her dad \u201ccrushed\u201d her dreams of making it in an entirely different sport.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[68818,7637,22932,49,48,619,615,68819,82,593,54820,621,40972],"class_list":["post-286634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-alcaraz-vs-sinner","tag-atp-finals","tag-atp-tour","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-sinner-vs-alcaraz","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-live","tag-tennis-news","tag-tennis-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}