{"id":33203,"date":"2025-07-24T07:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T07:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/33203\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T07:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T07:41:07","slug":"venus-williams-is-engaged-to-andrea-preti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/33203\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus Williams is engaged to Andrea Preti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/venus-williams-45-navratilova-339951add9c267ffe689900f4fc4ccc1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Venus Williams\u2019<\/a> winning return to the professional tennis tour also came with a surprise announcement: She is engaged.<\/p>\n<p>After becoming <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/venus-williams-peyton-stearns-dc-open-8777fbf41ca1ec39e024fa7d10123b1f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the second-oldest woman to win a tour-level singles match<\/a>, Williams gave thanks to her fiance, who was in the stands at the DC Open. He is Andrea Preti, who is a Danish-born Italian model and actor, according to the website IMDB.<\/p>\n<p>The 45-year-old Williams hadn\u2019t played in a tournament in 16 months until entering the event in Washington. She won a doubles match on Monday and a singles match on Tuesday, before losing in doubles on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, who has won seven Grand Slam singles titles, is scheduled to face Magdalena Frech in the second round on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP tennis: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Venus Williams\u2019 winning return to the professional tennis tour also came with a surprise announcement:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[27680,3506,3505,88,25713,99,428,9518],"class_list":["post-33203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-andrea-preti","tag-dc-wire","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-entertainment","tag-magdalena-frech","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-venus-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33203","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=33203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}