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10/31 03:33 CDT Venus Williams loses her doubles match at Guangzhou on the WTA
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Venus Williams loses her doubles match at Guangzhou on the WTA Tour
GUANGZHOU, China (AP) --- Venus Williams has lost in her first WTA Tour
semifinal in eight years.
The 46-year-old Williams and her Indonesian playing partner Janice Tjen lost to
Polina Kuderemetova and Maria Timofeeva 6-4, 6-7 (8), 10-6 in the Guangzhou
Open doubles semifinals on Saturday.
It marked Williams' first WTA Tour doubles semifinal appearance since the 2016
Rio Olympics and Wimbledon, and her first overall tour semifinal since 2018 at
Indian Wells, California.
Williams was given wild-card entries in both singles and doubles for the WTA
250 tournament in Guangzhou. She lost in singles 6-2, 6-2 on Tuesday to
teenager Lilli Tagger in the first round.
Tagger, an 18-year-old Austrian player, was born in 2008, the year Williams won
the last of her seven Grand Slam singles titles at Wimbledon.
Now ranked No. 599 in singles, Williams was playing her first singles match for
two months since the U.S. Open, where she lost in the first round to Sofia
Kenin.
Williams has lost 16 straight singles matches on tour going back to July 2025.
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