{"id":18119,"date":"2025-09-03T06:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T06:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18119"},"modified":"2025-09-03T06:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T06:04:12","slug":"williams-will-keep-playing-after-us-open-doubles-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18119","title":{"rendered":"Williams will keep playing after US Open doubles exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Venus Williams said she plans to keep playing tennis on Tuesday after exiting the US Open women&#8217;s doubles with partner Leylah Fernandez.<\/p>\n<p>The 45-year-old tennis icon and Fernandez saw their doubles dream halted in the quarter-finals with a 6-1, 6-2 loss to top seeds Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, who only returned to tennis in July after a 16-month absence from the sport, expressed satisfaction at her performances in New York.<\/p>\n<p>And the seven-time Grand Slam singles winner said she intends to keep playing for the foreseeable future, opportunities permitting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If there is opportunity for me to play, then hopefully I can get back somewhere this year,&#8221; said Williams, who received wild cards into the singles, doubles and mixed doubles draws at the US Open.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I&#8217;m proudest of is it&#8217;s not easy to come off the bench,&#8221; Williams said. &#8220;I have never had a layoff that long. It brought new challenges that I wasn&#8217;t ready for in so many ways.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked if her recent comeback performances had helped her fall back in love with tennis, she replied: &#8220;I was never out of love with the game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never had to think about if I loved the game. I was always playing, so it&#8217;s part of my DNA. But clearly to be out here grinding at this point, there has to be a little love, right?&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venus Williams said she plans to keep playing tennis on Tuesday after exiting the US Open women&#8217;s doubles with partner Leylah Fernandez. The 45-year-old tennis icon and Fernandez saw their doubles dream halted in the quarter-finals with a 6-1, 6-2 loss to top seeds Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend. Williams, who only returned to tennis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}