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Serena Williams: the three unknown sisters of the tennis player awarded with the Princess of Asturias

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It has finally arrived. Serena Williams (43), considered by many as the best tennis player in history, receives this Friday the Princess of Asturias Award for Sports 2025, which she receives from Princess Leonor at the Campoamor Theater in Oviedo. A new recognition for the youngest of the five Williams sisters. A family in which the three older daughters are almost unknown

Tennis player Serena Williams.
Tennis player Serena Williams.AP

Yetunde, Lyndrea, and Isha are the result of the first marriage of Oracene Williams (70), the mother of tennis players Serena and Venus (the most well-known of the clan) with Yusef Rasheed, who died prematurely from a heart attack. A professional coach, along with her second husband, also a coach Richard Williams, from whom she divorced in 2002 after two decades of marriage, they are the architects of the athletes' successes.

The eldest, Yetunde, tragically passed away in 2003 at the age of 31 when a member of a gang shot her in the chest by mistake while she was with her boyfriend. The incident occurred in Compton, a town in Los Angeles with a crime rate four times higher than the national average. It was where the Williams grew up before moving to Florida so that Venus and Serena could play tennis. Yetunde loved working and studying. She worked as a nurse, studied business to run her own beauty salon, and worked as a personal assistant to her sisters. At the time of her death, she was divorced and had three children, Jeffrey, Justus, and Jair.

At 47, Isha is a lawyer and also works as a film producer. Her latest work has been precisely in The Williams Method. She married discreetly the love of her life, lawyer Felix Fayron, about whom few details are known due to his shyness and desire to keep certain aspects of his life private. The couple has no children.

Lyndrea (43), on the other hand, has been linked for years to the fashion world as an entrepreneur and advisor. In fact, she worked in the wardrobe department of The Williams Method and in the TV show Game On!. Additionally, she has participated in some documentaries about her famous sisters. Currently, she is dating Vernon Imani, who works at American Campus to guide students in their academic future, and they do not have children.