{"id":31499,"date":"2025-09-04T23:24:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T03:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/williams-launch-tennis-and-education-initiative-for-youth\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T23:24:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T03:24:47","slug":"williams-launch-tennis-and-education-initiative-for-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/williams-launch-tennis-and-education-initiative-for-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams Launch Tennis and Education Initiative for Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Venus and Serena Williams Launch Excellence Program for Young Tennis Players<\/h2>\n<p>The legendary tennis players Venus and Serena Williams join forces in a groundbreaking initiative. Their goal is to provide opportunities to young people from communities with limited resources through tennis and education.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Williams Family Excellence Program&#8221; was presented on Thursday at the US Open, in collaboration with the USTA Foundation. Venus Williams was present at the ceremony held during the women&#8217;s semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>The program will focus on post-secondary education and professional development. It is expected to reach more than 2,500 young people between 13 and 25 years old annually by the year 2035.<\/p>\n<p>USTA Foundation community organizations will identify and recruit youth from underserved communities with athletic potential and financial needs. They will provide them with free or low-cost high-performance training, college admission guidance, and access to camps and competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Venus Williams, at 45 years old, participated in singles, doubles, and mixed doubles at this year&#8217;s US Open. Serena, her younger sister, has accumulated 23 Grand Slam singles titles, and together they have won 14 additional doubles titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venus and Serena Williams Launch Excellence Program for Young Tennis Players The legendary tennis players Venus and Serena Williams join forces in a groundbreaking initiative. Their goal is to provide opportunities to young people from communities with limited resources through tennis and education. The &#8220;Williams Family Excellence Program&#8221; was presented on Thursday at the US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[10,962,167,5697],"class_list":{"0":"post-31499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-education","9":"tag-serena-williams","10":"tag-tennis","11":"tag-venus-williams"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}