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Video: Trailer for Venus and Serena

Venus and Serena, a documentary that followed the sisters during their tumultuous 2011 season, will debut on iTunes on Thursday and hit theaters on May 10. The

Venus and Serena, a documentary that followed the sisters during their tumultuous 2011 season, will debut on iTunes on Thursday and hit theaters on May 10.

The Williamses gave the filmmakers unprecedented access during a year in which Serena was hospitalized with blood clots in her lungs and returned from an 11-month absence, and Venus struggled with injuries and illness. Both sisters mounted comebacks that eventually put Serena back on top of the women's game and netted Venus another Olympic gold medal.

"I wanted people to see everything I went through, and it wasn't easy," Serena said Monday in Charleston, S.C., where she's competing at The Family Circle Cup. "It was just a great time to capture in my life. I wasn't doing that great and I had just fallen from grace, so to say. And you really see all the hard work from the beginning. I won Stanford [in the summer of 2011], I won Toronto and then I get to the finals of the [U.S.] Open, and you can see the history of me getting back to where I am now. That was kind of cool."

I'll have more on the movie later this week. For now, here's a look at the trailer:

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Courtney Nguyen
COURTNEY NGUYEN

Contributor, SI.com Nguyen is a freelance writer for SI.com, providing full coverage of professional tennis both on and off the court. Her content has become a must-read for fans and insiders to stay up-to-date with a sport that rarely rests. She has appeared on radio and TV talk shows all over the world and is one of the co-hosts of No Challenges Remaining, a weekly podcast available on iTunes. Nguyen graduated from the University of California, Irvine in 1999 and received a law degree from the University of California, Davis in 2002. She lives in the Bay Area.