{"id":17179,"date":"2025-07-19T19:56:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T23:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/venus-williams-returns-to-tennis-will-play-at-the-dc-open-after-16-months\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T19:56:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T23:56:34","slug":"venus-williams-returns-to-tennis-will-play-at-the-dc-open-after-16-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/venus-williams-returns-to-tennis-will-play-at-the-dc-open-after-16-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus Williams Returns to Tennis: Will Play at the DC Open After 16 Months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Venus Williams Returns to Tennis at the DC Open<\/h2>\n\n\nThe legendary 45-year-old American tennis player Venus Williams is set to return to action at the DC Open in Washington (WTA 500) next week. This tournament will mark her comeback after a 16-month absence.\n\nThe tournament draw has determined that Williams will face Payton Stearns in the first round.\n\nWilliams&#8217; last tournament participation was in the first round of the Miami tournament in 2024, where she lost to Russian Diana Schnaider. For her participation in the DC Open, she received a special invitation.\n\nThe seven-time &#8216;Grand Slam&#8217; champion was listed as &#8220;inactive&#8221; in the WTA ranking until this announcement.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Possible Matchups<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In case of a victory in her debut, Williams could face the Polish player Magdalena Frech or a player from the qualifying rounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>There&#8217;s something really special about Washington: the energy, the fans, the history.<\/p><cite>Venus Williams<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nWilliams, who already competed in this tournament in 2022, expressed his enthusiasm. &#8220;This city has always shown me a lot of affection and I can&#8217;t wait to compete there again,&#8221; he added.\n\nThe Washington tournament, classified as a 500 category event, will not feature the participation of the current champion, the Spaniard Paula Badosa, due to a psoas injury.\n\nAmerican Jessica Pegula will be the top seed in the women&#8217;s competition.\n\nIn the ATP circuit, the main favorite is Taylor Fritz (No. 4). It should be noted that the tournament will not feature the presence of Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz or Novak Djokovic.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venus Williams Returns to Tennis at the DC Open The legendary 45-year-old American tennis player Venus Williams is set to return to action at the DC Open in Washington (WTA 500) next week. This tournament will mark her comeback after a 16-month absence. The tournament draw has determined that Williams will face Payton Stearns in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[5696,167,5697,430],"class_list":{"0":"post-17179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-dc-open","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-venus-williams","11":"tag-wta"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}