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Venus Williams First Player Over 40 To Win Match In 20 Years

PowerVault Network July 23, 2025


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by Cedric ‘BIG CED’ Thornton

July 23, 2025

She’s the second-oldest participant to do it after 47-year-old Martina Navratilova received a Wimbledon match in 2004


Proving that generally age is only a quantity, legendary tennis celebrity Venus Williams turned again the fingers of time when she turned the oldest participant to win a singles match on the Girls’s Tennis Affiliation (WTA ) Tour since Martina Navratilova received a Wimbledon match in 2004.

In line with CNN, Williams, who’s 45, received her match towards Peyton Stearns 6-3, 6-4 to advance to the spherical of 16 on the DC Open. She turns into the second-oldest tennis participant to win a match behind Navratilova, who was 47 when she received a Wimbledon match over 20 years in the past. The win comes after she received in doubles competitors with Hailey Baptiste on July 21.

The final time Williams performed on a tennis court docket was in March of final 12 months, when she misplaced an opening-round match towards Diana Shnaider on the Miami Open. Her final victory earlier than this, as a singles participant, was a victory in 2023 towards Veronika Kudermetova within the opening spherical of the Cincinnati Open.

“There are not any limits for excellence,” Williams stated. “It’s all about what’s in your head and the way a lot you’re in a position to put into it. In case you put within the work mentally, bodily, and emotionally, then you may have the outcome.”

She’s going to play two extra instances this week when she hits the court docket once more July 23 with Baptiste after they face Taylor Townsend and China’s Zhang Shuai. Her subsequent singles match takes place July 24 when she takes on No. 24-ranked Magdalena Fręch.

USA In the present day reported that the tennis participant is again in motion as a result of she said she wants medical health insurance.

“I needed to come again as a result of they knowledgeable me earlier this 12 months I’m on COBRA,” she stated. “So I used to be like, ‘I gotta get my advantages!’ You guys know what it’s like. I’m at all times on the physician, so I want this insurance coverage.”

Folks additionally reported that Williams is now an engaged girl. She said that her fiancé inspired her to maintain taking part in.

“My fiancé is right here and he actually inspired me to maintain taking part in,” Williams stated. The person she’s going to marry is a 37-year-old mannequin/actor, Andrea Preti.

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