{"id":619447,"date":"2026-04-21T19:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/619447\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T19:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:24:08","slug":"venus-williams-loses-10th-match-in-a-row-with-madrid-open-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/619447\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus Williams loses 10th match in a row with Madrid Open defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former world number one Venus Williams lost her 10th singles match in a row as she was beaten 6-2 6-4 by Kaitlin Quevedo at the Madrid Open.<\/p>\n

Williams, 45, is the first former number one to lose 10 matches in a row since the rankings were first published in 1975.<\/p>\n

The veteran last won a match last July<\/a> when beating fellow American Peyton Stearns at the Washington Open.<\/p>\n

Williams won Wimbledon five times between 2000 and 2008 and also won the US Open twice. She holds the record for most appearances at a Grand Slam, with this year’s Australian Open her 95th tournament.<\/a><\/p>\n

Her younger sister Serena, 44, has not played since the 2022 US Open but has not officially retired.<\/p>\n

The 23-time Grand Slam singles champion is eligible to play again after re-entering the out-of-comptetition drug testing pool but she has not announced an official return.<\/a><\/p>\n

In contrast, 20-year-old Quevedo of Spain is ranked 140 in the world and was playing in her first WTS 1000 match.<\/p>\n

The wildcard came from 3-0 down in the second set to defeat 2010 finalist Williams, who had won six of her eight Grand Slam titles before her opponent was born.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former world number one Venus Williams lost her 10th singles match in a row as she was beaten…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-619447","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\/619447","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=619447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}