[00:00.00]Unit 2 Heroes
[00:05.40]Lesson 3 Sprots Stars
[00:08.83]VENUS AND SERENA WILLIAMS are sisters.
[00:12.15]They are also both tennis champions
[00:14.71]who often have to play each other!
[00:17.15]Venus is now eleventh in the world,
[00:19.38]and her younger sister Serena
[00:21.23]has moved up to third.
[00:23.45]The two sisters were born in a poor
[00:25.43]and dangerous area of California.
[00:28.19]It was full of drugs and violence.
[00:30.69]In a recent interiew,
[00:32.57]Venus spoke about the time
[00:33.69]when she and Serena were practicing tennis,
[00:36.60]and they had to run and hide
[00:38.28]as bullets started flying through the air.
[00:41.53]Finally,in 1991,
[00:43.86]the sisters and their family
[00:45.24]moved to a safer area,
[00:47.03]and since then they have never looked back.
[00:50.25]The sisters'father,Richard,
[00:51.76]started to train Venus and Serena
[00:54.01]when they were young children,
[00:56.03]He has always been very strict
[00:57.57]with his daughters,
[00:58.80]training them hardto compete against each other
[01:02.37]Brandi,the sister's mother,
[01:03.94]taught her daughters at home.
[01:05.84]so that they completed their high school
[01:07.87]while developing their tennis careers.
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