{"id":822188,"date":"2026-11-02T23:22:24","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T23:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/822188\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T23:22:24","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T23:22:24","slug":"us-great-venus-williams-suffers-17th-loss-in-a-row-after-defeat-to-compatriot-stoiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/822188\/","title":{"rendered":"US great Venus Williams suffers 17th loss in a row after defeat to compatriot Stoiana"},"content":{"rendered":"

Venus Williams suffered her 17th loss in a row in singles tennis with a straight-sets defeat to a player half her age at the Hong Kong Open on Monday.<\/p>\n

The 46-year-old former world number one went down 6-2, 6-3<\/a> to fellow American Mary Stoiana<\/a> in the opening round.<\/p>\n

Williams<\/a>, now ranked 597, let out a yell and stumbled when chasing a return in the first set, just about managing to stay on her feet but going down 5-2.<\/p>\n

Stoiana, who is ranked 113, faced a crowd heavily in her opponent’s favour but refused to relent in the second set to condemn Williams to another early exit.<\/p>\n

Williams, a seven-time Grand Slam singles champion, last won a singles match on the WTA Tour in July 2025.<\/p>\n

\"MatchMatch statsFlashscore<\/p>\n

She lost in straight sets at the Guangzhou Open to Austrian teenager Lilli Tagger<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n

Before that, Williams last played at the US Open in August-September, when she lost in the first round to Sofia Kenin<\/a>, again without winning a set.<\/p>\n

Williams reached the semi-finals of the Guangzhou doubles with Indonesia’s Janice Tjen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She is also in doubles action in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old Stoiana faces top seed Sorana Cirstea<\/a> of Romania or Russian-born Uzbek Maria Timofeeva<\/a> in the last 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Venus Williams suffered her 17th loss in a row in singles tennis with a straight-sets defeat to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-822188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}