Venus Williams isn’t completed with 2026 simply but.
The seven-time Grand Slam singles champion has accepted wild playing cards into each the singles and doubles attracts on the Guangzhou Open, the place she is going to make her first look in Asia since 2019. Williams will accomplice Indonesia’s Janice Tjen in doubles.
The 46-year-old will likely be seeking to snap a 15-match singles dropping streak in Guangzhou. Williams has not received a singles match since defeating Peyton Stearns in Washington in July of 2025, her first match after a 16-month absence from the tour.
At that occasion, Williams turned the oldest girl to win a WTA singles match since Martina Navratilova in 2004, however she has been unable to unlock successful methods since.
Williams final competed on the US Open, the place she obtained wild playing cards into each singles and doubles. In singles, she fell to Sofia Kenin, 6-2, 7-6(6), within the opening spherical.
She additionally reunited with youthful sister Serena Williams within the ladies’s doubles draw. The 14-time Grand Slam doubles champions pushed No. 14 seeds Maya Joint and Hao-Ching Chan to the restrict earlier than falling 6-3, 6-7(6), 7-6(7) in a three-hour first-round thriller on a Friday night time in Flushing, a raucous affair for the sisters and the 24,000 that flooded by means of the gates of Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Guangzhou will mark Venus Williams’ first match since New York and one other alternative to gather her first singles victory of 2026. The WTA 250 occasion, performed on out of doors onerous courts, runs from October 26 by means of November 1.
