At age 43 and ranked No. 697, Venus Williams isn’t done quite yet — especially on her favored surface of grass. Know more:
BIRMINGHAM, England—At age 43 and ranked No. 697, Venus Williams isn’t done quite yet — especially on her favored surface of grass.
Williams upset 48th-ranked Camile Giorgi 7-6 , 4-6, 7-6 after more than three hours at the Birmingham Classic on Monday for her first victory over a player in the top 50 in nearly four years. Williams, a seven-time Grand Slam champion and five-time winner of the Wimbledon singles, was out for six months because of a hamstring injury sustained in Auckland in the first week of the year.
On her return last week, she lost to 17-year-old Celine Naef in the first round of the Libema Open in the Netherlands.“There were so many moments where I thought, ‘This match is over,’ then she would hit a shot from out of nowhere,” Williams said. “She pushed me to be better than what I thought I could be, and it’s great for me.There were also wins for third-seeded Magda Linette, fifth-seeded Anhelina Kalinina of Ukraine and Bernarda Pera of the United States in the Wimbledon warmup event.
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