如果时光倒退一年,可能还没有多少人知道塞琳娜是谁。提到威廉姆斯,人们想到的也只有塞琳娜的姐姐维纳斯。然而,一年后,这位初入网坛、年仅18岁的小姑娘却登上了上世纪最后一次大满贯比赛的冠军领奖台。 “花农”父亲假如有一天,塞琳娜成为世界排名第一的网球选手,那么她最应当感谢的人便是她的父亲兼教练——理查德·威廉姆斯。正是这位被美国媒体称作“花农”的老人,创造了网坛的百年奇迹——以外行人的身份培养了两位世界级的网球巨星。塞琳娜很小的时候,威廉姆斯一家居住在南加州的黑人区。当地的治安非常混乱,黑帮猖獗、毒贩出没。一次,理查德带着两个女儿外出练球,不料遇上了枪战。子弹从网球场上飞过,理查德将塞琳娜和维纳斯紧紧地搂在怀中。直到多年以后,姐妹俩对这段经历仍记忆犹新。恶劣的环境激发了威廉姆斯姐妹顽强的斗志,她们的球技日渐完善。塞琳娜 If time goes back one year, maybe not many people know Selena who. Mention Venus, Serena’s sister Venus. However, a year later, the 18-year-old girl, who entered the tennis arena, climbed to the championship podium of the last Grand Slam of the last century. “Farmer ” father If one day, Serena became the world’s number one tennis player, then she should be the most thanks to her father and coach - Richard Williams. It is this old man who is described by the U.S. media as “Farmer” and has created a hundred-year miracle of tennis - cultivating two world-class tennis stars as laymen. When Serena was very young, the Williams family lived in the black district of Southern California. Local law and order is very chaotic, rampant gangsters, drug traffickers. Once, Richard with two daughters go out to practice ball, unexpectedly met a shootout. Bullets flew over the tennis court, and Richard clasped Serena and Venus tightly in his arms. Until many years later, the sisters still remember this experience. Harsh environment inspired Williams Williams tenacious fighting spirit, their skills are improving. Serena