{"id":457439,"date":"2023-08-30T09:08:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T05:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=457439"},"modified":"2023-08-30T09:08:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T05:08:47","slug":"venus-williams-suffers-heavy-defeat-at-the-start-of-us-open","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/venus-williams-suffers-heavy-defeat-at-the-start-of-us-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus Williams suffers heavy defeat at the start of US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former two-time US Open champion Venus Williams suffered her worst defeat in 24 appearances at the Grand Slam tournament with a 6-1 6-1 loss against qualifier Greet Minnen in the first round on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Belgian smacked 24 winners and managed to save all six break points she faced to &#8216;disarm&#8217; the veteran American.<\/p>\n<p>Former world number one Williams&#8217; best chance of coming back into the contest came when she had a break point opportunity in the opening game of the second set but she failed to convert it and it was a one-sided match from than on.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Q. What would be the decisive factor when you choose what you do next?<\/p>\n<p>VENUS WILLIAMS: I wouldn&#8217;t tell you, so&#8230; I don&#8217;t know. I don&#8217;t know why you&#8217;re asking (smiling). <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y0CmUoqqok\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/y0CmUoqqok<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TENNIS (@Tennis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tennis\/status\/1696702845645693221?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThe hard-hitting Minnen would break the next game at love and cruise to victory in the match that lasted just 75 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former two-time US Open champion Venus Williams suffered her worst defeat in 24 appearances at the Grand Slam tournament with a 6-1 6-1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":457444,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[4051,20014],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[1891,20015],"acf":{"announce":"Former champion in New York was trashed 1-6; 1-6 by ","video":[]},"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\/457439"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/457439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457445,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/457439\/revisions\/457445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457439"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=457439"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=457439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}