Australian Open 2023: Venus Williams is about to play within the Australian Open after she was awarded a wild card enty into the event.
New Delhi,UPDATED: Dec 19, 2022 23:44 IST
Venus Williams is about to characteristic in her twenty second Australian Open. (Courtesy: AP)
By India Today Web Desk: Seven-times Grand Slam champion Venus Williams will play her twenty second Australian Open after being awarded a wildcard to the 2023 occasion subsequent month.
The 42-year-old American, twice a finalist at Melbourne Park, is ranked outdoors the highest 1,000 and has not performed a aggressive match since being dumped out of the U.S. Open within the first spherical by unseeded Belgian Alison Van Uytvanck.
“I’ve been competing in the country for over 20 years now and the Australian community has always supported me wholeheartedly,” Williams stated in an announcement on Monday.
“It will be an honour to play for the fans again and I’m looking forward to making more memories at the tournament this year.”
Williams has misplaced her final six matches on the WTA Tour since reaching the second spherical at Wimbledon.
Her 23-times Grand Slam title-winning sister Serena Williams introduced she would “evolve away” from tennis following the final US Open, the place she bowed out within the third spherical.
Novak Djokovic can also be set to play the event after his controversial absence in the course of the COVID-19 interval the place he was deported from the Australian shores over the non-compliance of taking necessary vaccine photographs.
Edited By:
Kingshuk Kusari
Published On:
Dec 19, 2022
