when did venus and serena start playing tennis
Serena Williams Williams was born in Saginaw, Michigan, to Richard Williams and Oracene Price, and is the youngest of Price's five daughters: half-sisters Yetunde, Lyndrea, and Isha Price, and full sister Venus.[1] When the children were young, the family moved to Compton, California, where Williams started playing tennis at the age of three.[30][31] Her father, Richard, home-schooled Serena and her sister Venus.[32][33] While he and subsequently her mother, Oracene, have been the official coaches, other mentors who helped her learn the game included Richard Williams, a Compton man who shared her father's name and would go on to found The Venus and Serena Williams Tennis/Tutorial Academy.[34]