The American legend had earned her first singles win on the WTA<\/a> Tour in two years at the Washington Open two weeks prior against compatriot Peyton Stearns<\/a>.<\/p>\n Williams<\/a> couldn\u2019t replicate her heroics in Cincinnati, however, and has since broken her silence on social media. <\/p>\n Two days after the defeat to the Spaniard, the eight-time Grand Slam champion took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to send a message to the Cincinnati fans. <\/p>\n Williams wrote: \u201cThank you @cincytennis for your unmatched energy and support.\u201d<\/p>\n The 45-year-old put up a fight against Bouzas Maneiro and broke the world number 42\u2019s serve on four different occasions. <\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t to be for Williams, though, and after an hour and 27 minutes of play, she waved goodbye to the Cincinnati crowd for potentially the last time. <\/p>\n Venus Williams\u2019 next tournament on the WTA Tour<\/p>\n Following her exit at the WTA 1000 event, Williams will set her sights on the US Open, where she will feature in the mixed doubles competition.<\/p>\n She will play alongside fellow American Reilly Opelka, who together make up one of eight wild card entries in the reimagined tournament.<\/p>\n The star-studded lineup will showcase pairings such as Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> and Emma Raducanu<\/a>, as well as Jannik Sinner<\/a> and Emma Navarro.<\/p>\n Williams has two mixed doubles Grand Slam titles to her name, and will look to make a deep run at Flushing Meadows alongside Opelka in pursuit of a third. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Venus Williams\u2019 campaign in Cincinnati was short-lived, having bowed out in her opening clash to Jessica Bouzas Maneiro.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[37370,99,428,9518,654],"class_list":{"0":"post-71057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-cincinnati-open","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-tennis","11":"tag-venus-williams","12":"tag-wta"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71057","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=71057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Venus](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2228218772-1024x603.jpg\")
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