{"id":115430,"date":"2025-09-03T10:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T10:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/115430\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T10:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T10:31:08","slug":"williams-will-keep-playing-after-us-open-doubles-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/115430\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams will keep playing after US Open doubles exit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Venus Williams \u00a9 Gallo Images<\/p>\n

Venus Williams said she plans to keep playing tennis on Tuesday after exiting the US Open women’s doubles with partner Leylah Fernandez.<\/p>\n

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The 45-year-old tennis icon and Fernandez saw their doubles dream halted in the quarterfinals with a 6-1, 6-2 loss to top seeds Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend.<\/p>\n

Williams, who only returned to tennis in July after a 16-month absence from the sport, expressed satisfaction at her performances in New York.<\/p>\n

And the seven-time Grand Slam singles winner said she intends to keep playing for the foreseeable future, opportunities permitting.<\/p>\n

“If there is opportunity for me to play, then hopefully I can get back somewhere this year,” said Williams, who received wild cards into the singles, doubles and mixed doubles draws at the US Open.<\/p>\n

“What I’m proudest of is it’s not easy to come off the bench,” Williams said. “I have never had a layoff that long. It brought new challenges that I wasn’t ready for in so many ways.”<\/p>\n

Asked if her recent comeback performances had helped her fall back in love with tennis, she replied: “I was never out of love with the game.<\/p>\n

“I never had to think about if I loved the game. I was always playing, so it’s part of my DNA. But clearly to be out here grinding at this point, there has to be a little love, right?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Venus Williams \u00a9 Gallo Images Venus Williams said she plans to keep playing tennis on Tuesday after exiting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-115430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}