Venus Williams’ run in doubles with associate 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 match in additional than a yr — and first in doubles since 2022 — and she or he and Baptiste received their first-round match on Monday.
Williams will play her second-round singles match Thursday towards Magdalena Frech.
On Tuesday, Williams grew to become the second-oldest lady 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 practically 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, unseeded Anna Kalinskaya eradicated No. 8 seed Magda Linette 6-4, 6-0.
The Related Press contributed to this report.