{"id":825648,"date":"2026-07-26T21:24:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T21:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/825648\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T21:24:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T21:24:20","slug":"on-tap-see-the-dc-open-womens-singles-and-doubles-draws-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/825648\/","title":{"rendered":"On Tap: See the DC Open Women\u2019s Singles and Doubles Draws \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Pegula headlines a draw that features seven Americans, Naomi Osaka, Elina Svitolina Alexandra Eala and more at DC.<\/p>\n<p>The North American hard court swing begins at the DC Open in Washington, DC, with American Jessica Pegula as the top seed in the women\u2019s singles draw.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The draw was released on Saturday, with seven American women taking their place in the 28-player draw.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Pegula, who will face either Magdalena Frech or Ann Li after a first-round bye, there is No.6-seeded Madison Keys (faces Liudmila Samsonova in round one), No.8-seeded Emma Navarro (faces Sofia Kenin round one), Ashlyn Krueger (faces Katie Boulter in round one) and 46-year-old Venus Williams (faces Anastasia Potapova in round one).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>See the full draw here:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"789\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/citi-open-womens-singles--789x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-68675\"  data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Another enticing first-round matchup, in addition to those mentioned, is:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"adslot inline-ad\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisexpress.com\/womens-racquets?utm_source=tennisnow&amp;utm_medium=article_ad&amp;utm_campaign=inarticle_racquets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tennis Express<\/p>\n<p>Grass-Court RacquetsThe frames the pros swing<\/p>\n<p>Shop racquets \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alexandra Eala vs Zheng Qinwen<\/p>\n<p>Eala, originally slated to play doubles with Venus Williams, has pulled out of that draw. Venus paired with Diana Shnaider.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>See the doubles draw here:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/citi-open-womens-doubles--791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-68676\"  data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Chris Oddo. Chris Oddo is a freelance sportswriter, podcaster, blogger and social media marker who is a lead contributor to Tennisnow.com. He also writes for USOpen.org, Rolandgarros.com, BNPParibasOpen.com, TennisTV.com, WTAtennis.com and the official US Open program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jessica Pegula headlines a draw that features seven Americans, Naomi Osaka, Elina Svitolina Alexandra Eala and more at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-825648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825648","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=825648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}