{"id":18100,"date":"2025-07-24T05:14:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/venus-williams-falls-in-doubles-at-the-dc-open-but-advances-in-singles\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T05:14:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:14:52","slug":"venus-williams-falls-in-doubles-at-the-dc-open-but-advances-in-singles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/venus-williams-falls-in-doubles-at-the-dc-open-but-advances-in-singles\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus Williams falls in doubles at the DC Open, but advances in singles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Venus Williams Falls in Doubles at the DC Open<\/h2>\n\n\nVenus Williams&#8217; participation in doubles alongside Hailey Baptiste at the DC Open came to an end in the second round on Wednesday, after losing 6-4, 3-6, 10-6 in a tiebreak against second seeds Taylor Townsend and Zhang Shuai.\n\nWilliams, 45, is competing in her first tournament in over a year and her first doubles participation since 2022. The Williams-Baptiste duo achieved a victory in the first round on Monday.\n\nWilliams will play her second-round singles match on Thursday against Magdalena Frech.\n\nOn Tuesday, Williams became the second-oldest woman to win a singles match at the circuit level, defeating Peyton Stearns in straight sets, 6-3, 6-4.\n\nAfter that victory, the first in almost two years, Williams received a wild-card invitation to the Cincinnati Open next month.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other DC Open Results<\/h2>\n\n\nIn other women&#8217;s singles matches at the DC Open on Wednesday, second seed Emma Navarro was eliminated by Maria Sakkari 7-5, 7-6 (1) in the night session.\n\nSakkari was the runner-up to Coco Gauff in Washington in 2023.\n\nAlso, Anna Kalinskaya, not being seeded, eliminated eighth seed Magda Linette 6-4, 6-0.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venus Williams Falls in Doubles at the DC Open Venus Williams&#8217; participation in doubles alongside Hailey Baptiste at the DC Open came to an end in the second round on Wednesday, after losing 6-4, 3-6, 10-6 in a tiebreak against second seeds Taylor Townsend and Zhang Shuai. Williams, 45, is competing in her first tournament [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[5696,2255,167,5697],"class_list":{"0":"post-18100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-dc-open","9":"tag-doubles","10":"tag-tennis","11":"tag-venus-williams"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18100","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=18100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}