{"id":206730,"date":"2026-03-06T03:53:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T03:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/206730\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T03:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T03:53:15","slug":"venus-williams-loses-in-first-round-at-indian-wells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/206730\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus Williams loses in first round at Indian Wells"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Venus Williams<\/a> dropped out of the BNP Paribas Open in the first round Thursday, falling 6-3, 6-7 (4), 6-1 to Diane Parry of France.<\/p>\n

The 45-year-old Williams, who has lost her last eight WTA matches, received a wild card into the singles and doubles draws for the tournament in the Southern California desert.<\/p>\n

After Williams rallied in the second set to tie it, the 23-year-old Parry, ranked 111th in the world, took control and cruised in the third.<\/p>\n

It was Williams\u2019 10th career appearance in the tournament and first since 2024, when she also lost in the first round as a wild card. The seven-time major winner was given a wild card last year, but didn\u2019t accept it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m so excited to be heading back to Indian Wells and can\u2019t wait to return home to play in California,\u201d Williams said last month.<\/p>\n

Williams entered the BNP Paribas Open having lost her last seven matches, with the only win in her comeback<\/a> to the tour coming in her return at Washington last year.<\/p>\n

She competed in the Australian Open in January and lost in the first round in both singles and doubles. Williams was the oldest woman to compete in an Australian Open<\/a> singles main draw, surpassing the mark set by Japan\u2019s Kimiko Date, who was 44 when she lost in the first round in 2015.<\/p>\n

Williams most recently participated in the ATX Open in Austin, Texas, last month as a wild-card entry and lost in the first round of singles to Ajla Tomljanovic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Venus Williams dropped out of the BNP Paribas Open in the first round Thursday, falling 6-3, 6-7 (4),…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[95383,95388,5994,95385,12411,29871,48,52,51,9925,47,50,49,2699,5816,564,12967,62867,95387,95384,95386],"class_list":["post-206730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-45-year-old-williams","tag-atx-open","tag-austin","tag-bnp-paribas-open","tag-first-round","tag-indian-wells","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-last-month","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-return","tag-single","tag-texas","tag-tournament","tag-venus-williams","tag-washington-last-year","tag-wild-card","tag-wta-match"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}