The Women Older Than Venus Williams To Play In The U.S. Open - World Tennis Magazine

The Women Older Than Venus Williams To Play In The U.S. Open - World Tennis Magazine

By Randy Walker @TennisPublisher Venus Williams will be competing in the U.S. Open in 2025 at the age of 45. However, she won’t be the oldest woman to ever compete in the event. In the first year that the U.S. Championships were “Open” (ie open to professionals and amateurs) in 1968, a 50 year-old player named Raymonde Veber Jones competed in the tournament and won her first round match defeating Carole Mae Hunter 6-2, 6-3 in the first round at …