Venus Williams became the second oldest woman to win a tour-level singles match at professional tennis, who at the age of 45, at the age of 45, distributes some of her familiar large services and groundstrokes, while on Tuesday night defeating 6-3, 6-4 to 6-3 to 6-3 to 6-3 in the DC Open on Tuesday night.
This was the first single win for Williams in almost two years. The only big woman to win the match was Martina Navratriva at 47 in 2004.
Former No. 1-Ranking Williams did not play a single in an official match in Miami since March 2024, which was missing while doing surgery to remove uterine fibroids. She did not live in a singles since August 2023 in Cincinnati. By this week, he was listed as “passive” by the WTA Tour.
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“It’s not easy,” Williams said, “After that time (come back) and play the right match.”
But a mob supported by a mob to see clearly, and support, in the hard-court tournament in the country’s capital, Williams showed a glimpse of the talents with him and the skills shown with them earning all their Grand Slam titles: Consumption in singles, consumption in singles, 14 women as well as younger sister Serena-and two mixed dubels.
“I wanted to play a good match,” she told fans, then added a phrase that was drawn: “The match won.”
For example, in the second game of Tuesday, Williams smack a return winner to start things, then gave some other major reactions to break Sterns, a 23 -year -old man who won a single and team NCAA title at the University of Texas and currently ranked 35th.
In the next game, Williams proceeded to reach a drop shot and responded with a winner. Soon, he led 4–2, then closed that set.
She was with cheers chorus. The first came when Williams moved to the main stadium at DC Open, a 7,000 -seat area that exceeds double, where he was a day earlier to win his doubles. Another came when she left the sideline to the center of the court for the formalities of the coin. The noise actually reached a crasendo when Williams started killing the aces – 110 mph and faster – the way he used to do.
There were also moments where Williams – who said that their fiancée were in the stand – it seemed as it was actually when she had competed until she had competed, including the initial game, when she broke in love in this way: Fourhand Wide, Forehand in the Net, Forhand Long, Backhand Long.
Finally, it made extra effort to closure things to Williams. She kept holding the match points and failed to change them. But finally, he operated in an 112 mph service that Sterns returned to the net. This was that: Williams may be wide as wide and jogging on the net to shake hands, then demonstrated its customary post-win-end-wave.
She proceeded in the second round match against Poland’s 27 -year -old number 5 Seed Magdelena French.
In another action on Tuesday, Emma Redukanu gave the sixth consecutive damage to the number 7 seed Marta Costiauk by finishing his 7-6 (4), 6-4. It set up a matchup between Redukanu and four-time prominent champion Naomi Osaka, which was 6–2, 7–5 winners against Yulia Putinteva.
Two top men got out of the seeds: Came Nori withdrew to number 2 Lorenzo Mussetti 3-6, 6-2, 6-3, and number 3 Holgar Run with a back injury from the tournament due to a back injury. Number 4 Seed Ben Shelton defeated McConald 6-3, 6-4.
