{"id":15901,"date":"2025-07-24T00:38:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T04:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/07\/24\/venus-williams-and-haley-baptist-lose-in-doubles-at-dc-open\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T00:38:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T04:38:30","slug":"venus-williams-and-haley-baptist-lose-in-doubles-at-dc-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/07\/24\/venus-williams-and-haley-baptist-lose-in-doubles-at-dc-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus Williams and Haley Baptist lose in doubles at DC Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Running in doubles with partner Hayley Baptist at the DC Open, he finished in the second round of Wednesday, with a 6-4, 3-6, 10-6 loss on the champion tiebreaker to second seeded Taylor Townsend and Zhang Shuai.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, 45, has made her first appearance in the tournament in over a year and was her first appearance in doubles since 2022, with her and Baptist winning their first match on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Williams will have a second round single match against Magdalena Fletch on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Williams became the second oldest woman to win a tour-level singles match, beating Payton Stearns, 23, 6-3, 6-4 in straight sets.<\/p>\n<p>Following that victory &#8211; she was the first in nearly two years &#8211; Williams was awarded a wildcard entry on Wednesday at the Cincinnati Open next month.<\/p>\n<p>In other DC Open Women&#8217;s Single Player on Wednesday, Emmanavaro, the second seeded, was eliminated by Maria Saccari 7-5, 7-6 (1) in the night session.<\/p>\n<p>Sacchira was Washington&#8217;s Coco Gough&#8217;s runner-up in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Also, unseeded Anna Kalinkaya eliminated No. 8 seed Magdalinette 6-4, 6-0.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Running in doubles with partner Hayley Baptist at the DC Open, he finished in the second round of Wednesday, with a 6-4, 3-6, 10-6 loss on the champion tiebreaker to second seeded Taylor Townsend and Zhang Shuai. Williams, 45, has made her first appearance in the tournament in over a year and was her first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[4687,153,4686,2379,32,24,3960,954],"class_list":{"0":"post-15901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-baptist","9":"tag-doubles","10":"tag-haley","11":"tag-lose","12":"tag-open","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-venus","15":"tag-williams"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}