{"id":15905,"date":"2025-07-24T01:37:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T05:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/07\/24\/venus-williams-awarded-a-wildcard-entry-for-the-cincinnati-open\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T01:37:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T05:37:03","slug":"venus-williams-awarded-a-wildcard-entry-for-the-cincinnati-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/07\/24\/venus-williams-awarded-a-wildcard-entry-for-the-cincinnati-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus Williams awarded a wildcard entry for the Cincinnati Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Mason, Ohio &#8212; Venus Williams&#8217; professional tennis return is more than just a single tennis visit. She was awarded a wildcard entry at the Cincinnati Open next month on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, 45, took part in his first event for over a year at the DC Open this week, winning first round matches in both singles and doubles.<\/p>\n<p>A 6-3, 6-4 win over 23-year-old Payton Stearns on Tuesday night, making Williams the second oldest woman to win a tour-level singles match. Martina Navratilova was 47 years old when she won her last singles victory in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Williams won five Grand Slam singles titles at Wimbledon and two at the US Open. Plus, she has two doubles with her younger sister Serena and two doubles.<\/p>\n<p>She will play Polish Magdalena Fretsch in Washington on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Cincinnati Open will begin on August 5th and will be a hard court tune-up from the US Open.<\/p>\n<p>Kathy McNally, the only player to take Wimbledon champion Iga Swiecsk, was also awarded a Cincinnati wild card on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mason, Ohio &#8212; Venus Williams&#8217; professional tennis return is more than just a single tennis visit. She was awarded a wildcard entry at the Cincinnati Open next month on Wednesday. Williams, 45, took part in his first event for over a year at the DC Open this week, winning first round matches in both singles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[4688,4274,1656,32,24,3960,1683,954],"class_list":{"0":"post-15905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-awarded","9":"tag-cincinnati","10":"tag-entry","11":"tag-open","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-venus","14":"tag-wildcard","15":"tag-williams"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15905","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=15905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}