{"id":439258,"date":"2023-07-06T08:09:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T12:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.7sport.net\/en\/news-single\/venus-williams-crashes-out-of-wimbledons-1st-round\/"},"modified":"2023-07-06T09:11:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T13:11:27","slug":"venus-williams-crashes-out-of-wimbledons-1st-round","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/venus-williams-crashes-out-of-wimbledons-1st-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus Williams crashes out of Wimbledon&#8217;s 1st round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venus Williams has crashed out in the 1st round of Wimbledon to Elina Svitolina in straight sets 6-4, 6-3.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">2019 Semifinalist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElinaSvitolina?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ElinaSvitolina<\/a> beats five-time champion Venus Williams 6-4, 6-3!<\/p>\n<p>Great to see the 43-year-old legend back out on Centre Court. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kxs4SNxmOr\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/kxs4SNxmOr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tennis Channel (@TennisChannel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisChannel\/status\/1675933088919199745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Despite starting strong and building a 3-0 advantage, Williams&#8217; fitness seems to have let her go as she slipped in attempt to catch a volley and fell to the ground, holding her right knee.<\/p>\n<p>Despite receiving medical treatment twice by a trainer, the 43-year-old just seemed unable to get back to full fitness and succumbed to a 1st round loss.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not sure what I\u2019ve done. I\u2019m going to have to investigate it tomorrow. It\u2019s late today. But it was quite painful,\u201d she said. \u201cGrass is inherently going to be slippery; you\u2019re going to fall at some point. It was just bad luck for me. I started the match perfectly. I was literally killing it. And then I got killed by the grass.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Williams was the oldest player to participate in this year&#8217;s edition of Wimbledon and 4th overall in history. Former world No.1 Williams career has been plagued by injuries lately and she has dropped out of top 500. However, to the surprise of everyone, she was given a wild card entry and it certainly didn&#8217;t end the way the 43-year-old had envisaged it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venus Williams has crashed out in the 1st round of Wimbledon to Elina Svitolina in straight sets 6-4, 6-3. 2019 Semifinalist @ElinaSvitolina beats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":439259,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20014,17072],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"video":[],"announce":"The 43-year-old was beaten as she suffered a nasty fall in the 1st set"},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439258"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=439258"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=439258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}