{"id":117207,"date":"2025-08-29T00:09:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T00:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/117207\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T00:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T00:09:06","slug":"venus-williams-advances-in-us-open-doubles-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/117207\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus Williams advances in US Open doubles tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venus Williams and Leylah Fernandez advanced to the second round of the U.S. Open women\u2019s doubles tournament, knocking off the No. 6-seeded pairing of Ellen Perez and Lyudmyla Kichenok,\u00a07-6 (7-4), 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>The win extends Williams\u2019 run at the U.S. Open after she <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/25\/sports\/venus-williams-comeback-attempt-sputters-in-us-open-loss\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">had been eliminated from the singles draw<\/a> earlier this week in an exciting match against Karol\u00edna Muchov\u00e1.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Venus Williams reacts after her US Open doubles win Aug. 28. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Venus Williams hits a shot during her US Open doubles match Aug. 28. AP<\/p>\n<p>Williams and Fernandez had to battle back from down 2-5 in the first set before winning the next two to tie things, but again had to rally when Perez and Kichenok won the 11th game of the set.<\/p>\n<p>Perez and Kichenok lost the 12th game on a forehand forced error and another forced error in the 13th game sealed the set for Williams and Fernandez.<\/p>\n<p>Venus Williams acknowledges fans after her US Open doubles match Aug. 28. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Williams, competing at age 45, and Fernandez quickly took control of the second set and secured the win.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During her on-court press conference, Williams called Fernandez the best doubles partner she\u2019s had \u201coutside of Serena.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Venus Williams and Leylah Fernandez advanced to the second round of the U.S. Open women\u2019s doubles tournament, knocking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428,14687,9518],"class_list":{"0":"post-117207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-us-open-tennis","11":"tag-venus-williams"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}