{"id":877081,"date":"2026-08-30T13:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T13:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/877081\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T13:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T13:44:11","slug":"inside-venus-williams-andrea-pretis-love-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/877081\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Venus Williams, Andrea Preti&#8217;s Love Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venus understandably needed a break\u2014&#8221;To stay interested in tennis,&#8221; she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oprah.com\/omagazine\/oprahs-interview-with-venus-and-serena-williams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">explained to\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oprah.com\/omagazine\/oprahs-interview-with-venus-and-serena-williams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oprah Winfrey<\/a>\u00a0in 2003, &#8220;I have to mix it up with other things&#8221;\u2014so the following month, she quietly swapped vows with Preti in Ischia, Italy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we didn\u2019t have enough time to do the paperwork,&#8221; Venus told Vogue, hence their subsequent week-long celebration in Florida that culminated in a civil ceremony Dec. 20, followed by a lavish wedding the next day.<\/p>\n<p>Yet as much as they cherished tying the knot\u2014&#8221;I can\u2019t describe how beautiful, calm, sacred, exciting, and exalting it was,&#8221; Venus told Vogue\u2014the couple know that married life isn&#8217;t an endless party.<\/p>\n<p>So, they said &#8220;I do&#8221; to showing up for each other every day. &#8220;We focus on simple things,&#8221; Preti, who said he was &#8220;very protective&#8221; of his wife, explained to The Knot. &#8220;Small things make a difference.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Venus understandably needed a break\u2014&#8221;To stay interested in tennis,&#8221; she explained to\u00a0Oprah Winfrey\u00a0in 2003, &#8220;I have to mix&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-877081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877081","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=877081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}