{"id":247558,"date":"2026-01-20T06:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T06:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/247558\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T06:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T06:31:07","slug":"venus-williams-ekaterina-alexandrova-out-in-womens-doubles-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/247558\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus Williams, Ekaterina Alexandrova out in women&#8217;s doubles first round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/venus-williams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Venus Williams<\/a> and Ekaterina Alexandrova went out of the women\u2019s doubles in the first round at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/sport-events\/2026-tennis-australian-open-melbourne\" 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January).<\/p>\n<p>In some close <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/sports\/tennis\/\" 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Elsa Jacquemot and Colombia\u2019s Emiliana Arango 7-6 (3), 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>The opening set was an enthralling back-and-forth affair before Jacquemont\/Arango clinched in a tiebreak.<\/p>\n<p>Jacquemot and Arango got a foothold on the second set to push ahead and despite a valiant effort from the opposition, booked a place in the next round.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Williams was a wildcard entry to the tournament, becoming the oldest woman to compete in the singles main draw. Tuesday&#8217;s loss marks the end of her journey Down Under.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Venus Williams and Ekaterina Alexandrova went out of the women\u2019s doubles in the first round at the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-247558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}