Venus Williams‘ run in doubles with companion Hailey Baptiste on the DC Open ended within the second spherical Wednesday with a 6-4, 3-6, 10-6 loss in a champion’s tiebreaker to second-seeded Taylor Townsend and Zhang Shuai.
The 45-year-old Williams is competing at her first event in additional than a 12 months — and first in doubles since 2022 — and she or he and Baptiste gained their first-round match on Monday.
Williams will play her second-round singles match Thursday in opposition to Magdalena Frech.
On Tuesday, Williams turned the second-oldest girl to win a tour-level singles match, beating Peyton Stearns — who’s 23 — in straight units, 6-3, 6-4.
On the heels of that victory — her first in almost two years — Williams was awarded a wild-card entry on Wednesday for subsequent month’s Cincinnati Open.
In different DC Open ladies’s singles play Wednesday, second-seeded Emma Navarro was eradicated by Maria Sakkari 7-5, 7-6 (1) within the night time session.
Sakkari was the 2023 runner-up to Coco Gauff in Washington.
Additionally, unseeded Anna Kalinskaya eradicated No. 8 seed Magda Linette 6-4, 6-0.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
