Venus Williams lost 6-2, 6-2 at the DC Open Thursday night with his first winning streak since 2019.
Williams is 45 years old, she First round victory on Tuesday night Since Martina Navratilova won the seven-time Grand Slam singles title against No. 35 Peyton Stearns in 47 games in 2004, winning a singles match on the Tour.
That was Williams’ first singles win since 2023, and then she joked that she was motivated to succeed because she hoped to be able to regain the WTA’s health insurance plan after more than a year touring.
She also won doubles in Washington. This tough game is Williams’ first game since March 2024. She missed the time due to uterine fibroid surgery.
Williams last played at least two straight games at the Cincinnati Open in August 2019, where she won three straight games before losing to Madison Keys in the quarterfinals.
Williams’s game against Trech was good, rising 2-1. But from there, Frech claimed to have a first set for seven straight games and led 2-0 in the second.
Frech, a 27-year-old from Poland, had his best Grand Slam performance in the fourth round of the 2024 Australian Open before losing to Coco Gauff.
The show under the lights tonight is about Williams, and her greetings are even bigger as she walks out of the Green Sports band in court. Whenever Williams unfolds her thriving ground movement, she can undoubtedly still hit hard – the crowds in the main stadium roar.
Williams’s problem: She often fails to calibrate those shots correctly, including when she hurried forward to the short ball on Frech’s racket, she walked out of her forehand. This gave Treshi a 3-2 lead.
Williams turned around or shoulders after some misses, and she encountered 14 uncompulsory mistakes in the opening ceremony, more than twice as many as Frech. Fans often respond immediately with “AWWWW” and then try to give Williams support by yelling.
Williams trailed 1-0 in the second set, and the choir’s rose was “Let’s go, Venus! We’re leaving!”
After a few minutes later, she received a match, she received loud applause and an ode to accompany her with a clapping of “Venus!”. When she went bankrupt to be within 4-2. But Williams hasn’t got another game yet.
The audience appreciated when it ended after the last Williams landed forehand in 1 hour and 12 minutes, and she responded with a smile, the kind of pirouet and wave she usually reserved for celebrating the victory.
“We will never say goodbye to Venus Williams, right?” said the stadium announcer.
In other moves on Thursday, Jessica Pegula She dominated her first professional match against Naomi Osakawon the showdown between past U.S. Open championships 6-4, 6-2.
“I do feel like it has something extra,” Rakanu said. “It’s a game and I feel a lot of people are talking about it in advance.”
Raducanu, the first qualifier to win a Grand Slam title when she beat New York in 2021 in the final, won the final of Fernandez in New York, saved the only two breakthrough points she encountered on Thursday and broke Osaka in Osaka three times.
The men of progress seeds include Ben Shelton No. 4, Frances Tiafoe No. 6, Alex de Minaur No. 7, Daniil Medvedev No. 8, Alejandro Davidovich Fokina No. 12, and Brandon Nakashima No. 14.

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