Opinion Ponga snr joins the good, the bad and the ugly of sporting parents
Which brings us to which model in Honest Pete’s Second-Hand Car Yard you want when it comes to Parents of Sports Champions.
The Richard Williams was the most famous model of all – a man who twice impregnated his wife with the specific purpose of raising two champions, which is exactly what he did, including raising the greatest female player the world has ever seen, in Serena.For all that, you’d be much better off with the smaller, less showy version.
Until Ash Barty’s parents came along. I think we’ll have to call them Mr and Mrs Barty because they were so little interested in publicity of any description – it was all about Ash, not them. We never got to know them by first names before she retired.NRL Photos
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