Venus Joins Select Group
WTA: " Venus Williams overcomes Giorgi in three-hour Birmingham thriller"
Venus Williams battled to her first Top 50 win since 2019 in three sets against Camila Giorgi to reach the Rothesay Classic second round.
7-6(5), 4-6, 7-6(6) in 3 hours and 17 minutes.
Posted elsewhere by Jeff Sackman of Tennis Abstrct:
Here's a complete list of women in the WTA era (since 1973) who won a tour-level match after their 43rd birthday:
Dodo Cheney (1973)
Renee Richards (1977-81)
Judy Dalton (1981)
Martina Navratilova (2002-04)
Kimiko Date Krumm (2013-15)
VENUS WILLIAMS (2023)
Dodo Cheney--champion of the 1938 Australian Championships--was 57 years old when she picked up a win at the Pacific Southwest in 1973.
I'm looking forward to 2037, when Venus breaks that record.
Venus Williams battled to her first Top 50 win since 2019 in three sets against Camila Giorgi to reach the Rothesay Classic second round.
7-6(5), 4-6, 7-6(6) in 3 hours and 17 minutes.
Posted elsewhere by Jeff Sackman of Tennis Abstrct:
Here's a complete list of women in the WTA era (since 1973) who won a tour-level match after their 43rd birthday:
Dodo Cheney (1973)
Renee Richards (1977-81)
Judy Dalton (1981)
Martina Navratilova (2002-04)
Kimiko Date Krumm (2013-15)
VENUS WILLIAMS (2023)
Dodo Cheney--champion of the 1938 Australian Championships--was 57 years old when she picked up a win at the Pacific Southwest in 1973.
I'm looking forward to 2037, when Venus breaks that record.