{"id":201543,"date":"2025-09-05T05:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/201543\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T05:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:57:10","slug":"williams-sisters-partner-to-expand-tennis-education-access-to-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/201543\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams sisters partner to expand tennis, education access to youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/tennis\/player\/_\/id\/403\/venus-williams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Venus<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=394\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Serena Williams<\/a> are partners in a new initiative to provide opportunities for young people from under-resourced communities through tennis and education.<\/p>\n<p>The Williams Family Excellence Program was announced Thursday at the U.S. Open along with the USTA Foundation between women&#8217;s semifinal matches, with Venus Williams taking part in the on-court ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/46056675\/venus-williams-returning-us-open-age-45-inspiring\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/r1522408_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The program will focus on post-secondary education and career development, aiming to reach more than 2,500 people ages 13 to 25 annually by 2035. The USTA Foundation&#8217;s community-based organizations will identify and recruit young people from under-resourced communities who have athletic potential and financial need, and provide them with no-cost or low-cost high-performance training, college recruitment guidance, and access to camps and competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Venus Williams played singles, doubles and mixed doubles at 45 during this year&#8217;s U.S. Open. Serena, her younger sister, won 23 Grand Slam singles titles and the sisters won 14 more together in doubles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Venus and Serena Williams are partners in a new initiative to provide opportunities for young people from under-resourced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":201544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-201543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115150156208983359","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}