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Who Are The Other Williams Sisters?

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Every tennis fan knows Venus and Serena Williams, but almost nobody outside their inner circle can name the three sisters who raised them in that Compton apartment before Wimbledon ever came calling.

Long before the Williams name meant Grand Slam trophies, it meant a cramped house with one bedroom and four beds for five girls. Yetunde, Isha, and Lyndrea Price are Venus and Serena’s older maternal half-sisters, the daughters Oracene Price had with her first husband, Yusef Rasheed, before she married Richard Williams in 1980. They didn’t just grow up alongside two future icons — they helped build them.

• Yetunde, Isha, and Lyndrea Price are the three older half-sisters of Venus and Serena Williams, born to Oracene Price and her late first husband, Yusef Rasheed.
• The five sisters shared a single bedroom with only four beds and lived under a strict 10:00 p.m. curfew until age 18 while supporting Venus and Serena’s tennis training.
• Eldest sister Yetunde Price was fatally shot at age 31 on September 14, 2003, in Compton, leading her surviving sisters to found the Yetunde Price Resource Center in 2016.

An Upbringing Built Around Two Rackets

Richard Williams’ plan for Venus and Serena required an entire household’s labor, and that fell largely on their three older sisters. Isha Price has said she spent countless hours feeding balls into the machine and then picking them all back up until the courts closed for the night. It wasn’t until she got to college that she realized how far outside the norm her childhood actually was compared to her classmates’.

The discipline extended well past the court. All five girls bunked in one room with just four beds between them, and the family enforced a 10:00 p.m. bedtime that held firm until each daughter turned 18 — an insular, tennis-first routine that shaped every one of the Price sisters long after Venus and Serena turned pro.

Yetunde’s Role and the Family’s Devastating Loss

Yetunde Price was the eldest of the five and, by every account, the family’s steadying hand. A registered nurse and co-owner of a hair salon, she also worked as personal assistant to Venus and Serena, handling their day-to-day needs as their careers took off. Serena has said Yetunde changed her diapers as a baby and later nursed her through recovery from a torn quadriceps, the kind of daily care that goes well beyond a job title.

On September 14, 2003, Yetunde was riding in an SUV driven by her partner, Rolland Wormley, near a suspected drug house in Compton when she was shot in the back of the head. She was 31. Her death remains the darkest chapter in the family’s story, one that reshaped how her sisters chose to spend the rest of their lives.

Yetunde was fatally shot in the back of the head at age 31, near a suspected drug house in the same Compton streets where the sisters had grown up feeding tennis balls into a machine for hours on end.

Turning Grief Into a Resource Center

Rather than let Yetunde’s murder become just another statistic, her surviving sisters channeled it into something concrete. In 2016, they opened the Yetunde Price Resource Center in Compton, an organization built specifically to help victims of violent trauma — the same kind of loss their own family had absorbed thirteen years earlier. It’s a legacy project as deliberate as anything on a tennis résumé, and it keeps her name attached to the community where she was raised and where she died.

Isha and Lyndrea Carve Out Their Own Lanes

Isha Price didn’t stay on the tennis grounds. She went on to earn degrees from Howard University and Georgetown University Law Center, building a legal career entirely separate from her sisters’ sport. Lyndrea took a different route still, moving into the fashion industry and building a creative career on her own terms rather than working in Venus and Serena’s orbit.

Both paths reflect a deliberate choice to step out from under a very large shadow — the same instinct that shows up whenever family members of famous names decide the spotlight isn’t for them. Isha and Lyndrea had every reason to trade on the Williams name; instead they built law and fashion careers that stand on their own.

What sticks with anyone who digs into this family isn’t just the tennis empire Richard Williams built — it’s that three sisters who spent their childhoods feeding a ball machine in Compton ended up as a nurse-turned-salon-owner, an attorney, and a fashion creative, and that the one who held the family together the longest never got to see how any of it turned out.