Coach Rick Macci believes Venus Williams could have easily gotten to 15-20 Grand Slams if there weren’t Serena Williams and that maybe now she would have been in the conversation for the greatest tennis player of all time.
Before the whole world knew about the Williams sisters, Macci was their childhood coach and the one who is widely praised for their early development. When the Williams sisters started working with Macci around the age of 10-11, it didn’t take long before the word spread out that Macci was working with two generational talents.
When the Williams sisters started their careers, it didn’t take long before they started to achieve massive success – Venus won her first Grand Slam title at 2000 Wimbledon just days after turning 20, while Serena was 17 when her first Slam win came at the 1999 US Open.
Shortly after winning her first Slam, Venus quickly got to four Majors after also winning the 2000 US Open and then defending her Wimbledon and US Open titles in 2001. Then between 2002 and 2003, Venus made five more Grand Slam finals and lost to her sister Serena in each of those finals. A couple of years later, Venus beat Serena in the 2008 Wimbledon final but again lost to her sister in the 2009 Wimbledon final and 2017 Australian Open final,…
