{"id":775745,"date":"2026-07-02T15:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/775745\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T15:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:44:08","slug":"venus-williams-awarded-wild-card-for-national-bank-open-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/775745\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus Williams awarded wild card for National Bank Open in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams will return to singles action in Toronto, as she has been awarded a wild card into the main draw of the National Bank Open in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m so thrilled to be back playing in Toronto. It\u2019s a city and a tournament that have always meant so much to me,\u201d said Williams, in a release. \u201cThe National Bank Open has been part of my journey since I received one of my first wild cards here at just 15 years old. It\u2019s wonderful to return to a place with so many special memories, and I can\u2019t wait to compete again in front of Toronto\u2019s amazing tennis fans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 46-year-old will be making her 13th appearance at the WTA 1000 event in Canada, where her best result was a finals appearance in 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Williams is scheduled to play in the women\u2019s doubles tournament at Wimbledon with sister Serena, though the match is in question after Serena sustained a knee injury in her first-round singles loss to Maya Joint on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Venus will also enter the mixed doubles event at the All-England Club with partner Kevin Krawietz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Williams has won a total of 46 WTA tour titles in her career, including nine WTA 1000 trophies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams will return to singles action in Toronto, as she has been awarded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-775745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775745","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=775745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}