Jul 23, 2025, 06:22 PM ET<\/p>\n
Venus Williams<\/a>‘ run in doubles with partner Hailey Baptiste<\/a> at the DC Open ended in the second round Wednesday with a 6-4, 3-6, 10-6 loss in a champion’s tiebreaker to second-seeded Taylor Townsend<\/a> and Zhang Shuai<\/a>.<\/p>\n The 45-year-old Williams is competing at her first tournament in more than a year — and first in doubles since 2022 — and she and Baptiste won their first-round match<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n Williams will play her second-round singles match Thursday against Magdalena Frech<\/a>.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n 2 Related<\/p>\n On Tuesday, Williams became the second-oldest woman to win a tour-level singles match<\/a>, beating Peyton Stearns<\/a> — who is 23 — in straight sets, 6-3, 6-4.<\/p>\n On the heels of that victory — her first in nearly two years — Williams was awarded a wild-card entry<\/a> on Wednesday for next month’s Cincinnati Open.<\/p>\n In other DC Open women’s singles play Wednesday, second-seeded Emma Navarro<\/a> was eliminated by Maria Sakkari<\/a> 7-5, 7-6 (1) in the night session.<\/p>\n Sakkari was the 2023 runner-up to Coco Gauff<\/a> in Washington.<\/p>\n Also, unseeded Anna Kalinskaya<\/a> eliminated No. 8 seed Magda Linette<\/a> 6-4, 6-0.<\/p>\n The Associated Press contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 23, 2025, 06:22 PM ET Venus Williams‘ run in doubles with partner Hailey Baptiste at the DC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-20295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}