{"id":953340,"date":"2026-10-31T16:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T16:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/953340\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T16:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T16:26:12","slug":"venus-williams-loses-doubles-match-at-guangzhou-on-the-wta-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/953340\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus Williams loses doubles match at Guangzhou on the WTA Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">GUANGZHOU, China (AP) \u2014 Venus Williams has lost in her first WTA Tour semifinal in eight years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 46-year-old Williams and her Indonesian playing partner Janice Tjen lost to Polina Kuderemetova and Maria Timofeeva 6-4, 6-7 (8), 10-6 in the Guangzhou Open doubles semifinals on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It marked Williams\u2019 first WTA Tour doubles semifinal appearance since the 2016 Rio Olympics and Wimbledon, and her first overall tour semifinal since 2018 at Indian Wells, California.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Williams was given wild-card entries in both singles and doubles for the WTA 250 tournament in Guangzhou. She lost in singles 6-2, 6-2 on Tuesday to teenager Lilli Tagger in the first round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Tagger, an 18-year-old Austrian player, was born in 2008, the year Williams won the last of her seven Grand Slam singles titles at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Now ranked No. 599 in singles, Williams was playing her first singles match for two months since the U.S. Open, where she lost in the first round to Sofia Kenin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Williams has lost 16 straight singles matches on tour going back to July 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"> See AP\u2019s full tennis coverage here <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GUANGZHOU, China (AP) \u2014 Venus Williams has lost in her first WTA Tour semifinal in eight years. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-953340","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\/953340","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=953340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}