Venus beats a top 20 player for the first time in four years
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Venus Williams defeated Veronika Kudremetova in straight sets in the first round of the Western & Southern Open tennis tournament. It was his first win against a top 20 ranked player in the last four years.
America’s veteran player Venus Williams defeated Veronika Kudremetova in straight sets in the first round of the Western and Southern Open tennis tournament. It was his first win against a top 20 ranked player in the last four years. Seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus, 43, beat Kudremetova 6-4, 7-5, taking her record to three wins and five losses this year.
Venus currently has a world ranking of 533. Venus was trailing 1-4 in both sets but came back brilliantly both times. He got a break point opportunity nine times in the match, out of which he got success six times. Venus said, “I was telling myself all the time, I just want to get this point. I just want to win this point, not the match. When you think like that, even a big problem becomes small.”
Venus had lost her last 10 matches against top-20 players after defeating then No. 5 Kiki Bertens in Cincinnati in 2019. Another American player and 2017 US Open champion Sloane Stephens defeated Elisabetta Cocciaretto 7-5, 6-2. In the men’s section, 12th seed Felix Auger Aliassime defeated Matteo Berretini 4-6, 6-2, 6-3.
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