On the Line: The Richard Williams Story (2022)

Directors

Stuart McClave

The story

The film opens with rare family footage in which Richard Williams asks his young daughters Venus and Serena Williams, years before they would become successful tennis players, if they feel a part of the ghetto, and what they like about it. It then chronicles their rise from mastering tennis on the public courts of Compton, California around gang members to the family gate-crashing the ethnically homogeneous sport of tennis and rising through the rankings. The film showcases the 1994 Bank of the West Classic, which served as Venus Williams's professional tour debut, and the controversial 2001 Indian Wells Masters tournament, which in the…

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