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Yetunde Hawanya Tara Price (August 9, 1972 – September 14, 2003) [1] was the oldest half-sister of and personal assistant to the leading tennis players Venus and Serena Williams. On September 14, 2003, she was murdered in a drive-by shooting in Compton, California, United States by Robert Maxfield.
In 2016, Serena Williams and Venus Williams honored their late sister by founding the Yetunde Price Resource Center, a non-profit that collaborates with other organizations to offer healing ...
The Wiliams sisters are two professional American tennis players: Venus Williams (b. 1980), a seven-time Grand Slam title winner (singles), and Serena Williams (b. 1981), twenty-three-time Grand Slam title winner (singles), both of whom were coached from an early age by their parents Richard Williams and Oracene Price.
Along with her 7 Grand Slam singles titles — five at Wimbledon, two at the U.S. Open — Venus has also won 14 women’s doubles major titles, all with sister Serena by her side.
The song is dedicated to Yetunde Price (the elder half-sister of tennis stars Serena Williams and Venus Williams), who was shot dead on September 14, 2003; the Williams' also came from the Game's hometown of Compton, California. The lyrics cite the Dr. Dre album 2001 being released "in 2001", when it was actually released in 1999.
Venus and Serena were pretty much inseparable growing up. In fact, Serena "worshipped" her older sister, and it took a long time for her to separate her identity from Venus', per The New York Times .
On September 14, 2003, two members of the South Side Compton Crips opened fire on an SUV containing Yetunde Price and her boyfriend, fatally wounding Price. Price was the oldest half-sister of and personal assistant to the leading tennis players Venus and Serena Williams. The two gang members believed they were protecting a drug house from a ...
Serena gave birth to her first child on Sept. 1, 2017, and married Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian that November. The couple welcomed a second child together, daughter Adira , in 2023.