Sascha Bajin, Naomi Osaka’s former coach and formerly part of Serena Williams‘ team for seven years, was accused by Serena of cheating with her sister Venus Williams! Bajin worked with Serena until 2015, with Serena not sharing hit partner with anyone, not even her sister Venus!
Bajin and Williams worked together for seven years until 2015, when the German decided to part ways with the 23-time Grand Slam champion to become a coach. Williams won ten Grand Slam titles while working with him. When Serena completed five years of her partnership with successful partner Sascha Bajin she tweeted: “@BigSascha just received your gift #3 of five for our 5th anniversary together.
Hope you are not in Fl who cheats by striking with Venus!”
Serena and Venus Williams
In more than twenty years, Serena and Venus won 121 singles tournaments, 4 mixed doubles tournaments and occupied a total of more than 300 weeks at number one in singles and eight weeks also in the doubles rankings.
After the 2002 French Open, Venus and Serena were number one and two respectively in the singles rankings. Both are part of the small group of tennis players who have won the most titles ever. Partnering in women’s doubles tournaments, the Williams sisters have won 14 Grand Slam titles and on one occasion won 4 consecutively (from Wimbledon 2009 to Paris 2010), but not in the same calendar year.
There’s no shortage of achievement at the Olympics either: they’ve captured a total of four gold medals each, including three together in women’s doubles and one each in singles. Venus is also the tennis player, including men, with the most Olympic medals won, five.
Between them, they also kindled an intense rivalry. In fact, they have met 31 times, of which 9 times in a Grand Slam final. They are, therefore, the second pair who have met more times in the women’s singles finals behind Chris Evert-Martina Navrátilová, who have met 14 times. Serena finished ahead in number of matches won (19-12).
