Father of Venus and Serena to Marry Woman His Daughters’ Age

Well, there’s no fool like an old fool. Ask Paul McCartney and countless others.

March 17th, 2009 at 4:59 pm

smile, speaking as an old fart myself, I’m always puzzled at this response. This is a young woman who might be said to be throwing herself away on an old man. Surely she’s the fool, if anyone is.

March 17th, 2009 at 5:18 pm

Yeah but like Heather Mills, she stands to inherit some of Papa Coach’s wealth. All she needs is a baby, pronto. There may already be a bun in the oven. lol

March 17th, 2009 at 5:37 pm

Sorry to differ, she’s not the fool. He’s got mucho bucks and the odds are she’ll outlive him, get the big bucks to boot when he dies, unless he has a pre-nup then she’ll marry a man her age. And, the two shall live happily ever after. In the meantime, she’s travelling all around the world with her grandfather. I thought she was one of his nieces, when I’ve seen them together, but never thought she was his “travelling companion”. In their case all she needs is a set of air plugs and some aspirin. Got a headache anyone? She’ll need a diversion from his ego, that’s for sure.

March 17th, 2009 at 6:46 pm

Uh oh…better not talk about to the Williams family media!!!! You know someone will eventually pull out the race card!!!!

March 17th, 2009 at 9:31 pm

Shan Says:

“Uh oh…better not talk about to the Williams family media!!!! You know someone will eventually pull out the race card!!!!”

Yes and it gets really old. I might have to pull out my sexism card if they do that.
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Anyone who can put up with Richard deserves to inherit any riches he might have – God help her. I have to disagree with you here Von – I think she is a fool because no amount of money would be worth that to me.

March 17th, 2009 at 11:27 pm

Sup Von….I came in here to find some fake fools posting under my name but I’m lettin y’all know rite now.it aint the real me. Coz wen I get started y’all know my style. I’m officially retired from all this flaming bull coz at this point I give 2 shitts bout wat anyone thinks.Like I always say I dont wanna waste my time arguing with retards who dont know half of wat i know.

To twocents: i’m not leaving coz of wat u said….i’m leaving coz i just dont give a damn anymore.

March 18th, 2009 at 12:38 am

you women need lives. especially you shan.

March 18th, 2009 at 1:31 am

Here they come Shan – go away troll!

March 18th, 2009 at 1:44 am

who is “they”?

March 18th, 2009 at 2:00 am

Ryan:

Don’t leave – we enjoy your input.

March 18th, 2009 at 2:07 am

Ryan:

C’mon, say it ain’t so. I won’t try to change your mind, but I think you know by now how much I like exchanging posts with you. Anyway, do as you see fit. That was very nice of you to assure TwoCents that he didn’t offend you and he’s not the reason you decided to stop posting. Take care of yourself, bro, and I hope you have a change of heart. Pax.

March 18th, 2009 at 2:17 am

Von:

I understand your disappointment at my leaving this blog. After all, I\’m the only one who got along well with you. And why wouldn\’t we get along well? After all, both of us supported a sissy and a donkey. We both hated a Latin champion who we hoped would never become world no. 1 or win grand slams outside of clay.

But life is so cruel. Here he is, in front of our own eyes, becoming the greatest sportsman of all time. It\’s so painful to watch all this. I think I\’m going to stop watching tennis forever. I hope you\’ll do the same.
Good Bye.

March 18th, 2009 at 3:51 am

Congratulations to Richard Williams and Lakeisha Graham on your impending marriage. I wish you a successful union and many happy years together.

March 18th, 2009 at 7:52 am

Ryan,

Thanks a lot for letting me off the hook. I appreciate it greatly.

Best Wishes.

March 18th, 2009 at 10:11 am

Ryan – take it easy and don’t hesitate to come back any ole time you have a hankering to talk tennis! Cheers.

March 18th, 2009 at 10:49 am

i agree Vvx. some people (i.e. tenisbebe, shan and von) are so miserable and lonely they can’t be happy for others. if there ever was a better example of misery loves company look no further than that trio.

March 18th, 2009 at 11:11 am

“A reporter from the website later called Williams, who hung up on him when he asked “if the sisters approved of his marrying a woman 37 years younger.””

“Three years before the divorce from his former wife, Oracene appeared at West Palm Beach’s Columbia Hospital with three broken ribs that hospital staff suspected was the result of domestic violence, but a police investigation resulted in no charges.”

Lol, personal barbs aside, I’m pretty confident I read the article and summarized it well.

March 18th, 2009 at 11:58 am

Ryan said: “We both hated a Latin champion […] It\’s so painful to watch all this”

Why don’t you use his name? You hate him because he’s Latin!?

Ryan said: “I think I\’m going to stop watching tennis forever. I hope you\’ll do the same”

Yeah give us a rest from your wisdom. Thanks!

March 18th, 2009 at 12:17 pm

There’s the scroll button, USE IT! However, you won’t because you love reading what’s written and your curiosity is unconrollable. How else can you unleash all the demons raging in your head? The answer is simple, beating up on anyone who’s an easy target. GET A LIFE, you need one. Glad to see you’ve resurrected at least two aliases today. Have fun.

March 18th, 2009 at 3:56 pm

“Race baiting is an act of using racially derisive language, actions or other forms of communication, to anger, intimidate or incite a person or groups of people, or to make those persons behave in ways that are inimical to their personal or group interests.”

Shan, you must be so proud- are all your family member race baiters.

March 18th, 2009 at 6:41 pm

Von, if I were to take your stance on this question, I’d expect to be called cynical, sexist, and be accused of disrespecting women. Is it really perfectly acceptable for a woman to marry an old man just in order to inherit his money. After all, if Williams lives to be 87, as he well might, she’ll 57 when she gets her money, with the best years of her life gone.
Furthermore, even if she is marrying him for the money, if (may be a big if) she stays loyal to him while he’s alive, might he not, on his deathbed, think he’d made a good investment? Would he then be a fool?

March 18th, 2009 at 6:53 pm

Colin: I can only answer your question by giving you an example of what I’ve seen and a recent ‘woe is me tale’ told to me by a guy recently who is a cable technician, and related his story while fixing a cable problem at my home. He, married a woman who was 20 at the time of their marriage, she’s now 25 and he’s 50. He paid for her college education and now that she has graduated she’s calling him an idiot, a boring old #*^x, et al. She goes out with her friends and leaves him alone in the evenings without dinner. Due to his unhappiness, he asked for my opinion, and all I could tell him was “sorry to hear”; I did tell him he should nip the name calling and disrespect in the bud though. In that guy’s case, would you say he’s happy and he made the best decision for himself, or even for her? They are both miserable. Also, wouldn’t you say it was a marriage of convenience for her and now that she has an education and is independent, she appears to be disinterested in the marriage? Based on the facts as presented to me, I’d say the cable guy was the fool and not the wife, or do you disagree? BTW, he has a daughter the same age as the woman, similar to Richard.

I don’t know why women marry men who are older than they are, or for their money and vice versa since I’ve worked before and throughout my marriage and have never had to depend on a man for security or money, contrary to what ‘Federer Rules’ thinks, since he has referred to me as a ‘gold-digger’ and ‘the scum of society’ because of my opinion. I personally wouldn’t marry a man younger than myself, or one who is more than 5 years older than I am, nor for his money, because I’m not needy. And, with respect to Richard Williams all I can say, only time will tell, whether he made the right decision or not.

March 18th, 2009 at 8:01 pm

good gosh! he’s twice her age. I heard a good joke. I don’t know how many times 30 goes into 67, but 67 goes into 30 every chance he gets!

March 19th, 2009 at 4:42 am