Venus Williams loses her doubles match at Guangzhou on the WTA Tour
Williams and Janice Tjen fell 6-4, 6-7 (8), 10-6, ending her first WTA Tour doubles semifinal run since 2016.
- On Saturday, 46-year-old Venus Williams and her Indonesian partner Janice Tjen lost the Guangzhou Open doubles semifinal to Polina Kuderemetova and Maria Timofeeva, ending their wild-card run.
- Williams received wild-card entries for both singles and doubles at the WTA 250 tournament in Guangzhou but exited singles on Tuesday, losing 6-2, 6-2 to Austrian teenager Lilli Tagger.
- Marking her first WTA Tour doubles semifinal appearance in eight years, this run represented her first overall tour semifinal since Indian Wells, California in 2018.
- Beyond the doubles performance, Williams continues struggling on the singles circuit, having lost 16 straight singles matches on tour dating back to July 2025.
- Tagger, born in 2008—the year Williams won her last of seven Grand Slam singles titles at Wimbledon—embodied the generational gap evident in their match.
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Venus Williams was eliminated in the doubles semifinals of the UTA 250 tournament in Guangzhou. The 46-year-old American and her partner Janis Tjen of Indonesia lost to Russians Polina Kudermetova and Maria Timofeeva 4-6, 7-6 (8), 6-10. The match was decided in a championship tiebreak after the two pairs exchanged one set each. Kudermetova and Timofeeva took the first part 6-4, and Williams and Tjen tied after a tiebreak in the second set, won 1…
Venus Williams, Janice Tjen Lose Guangzhou Open Doubles Semi-Final After Saving Four Match Points
Guangzhou, October 31, 2026 (Yes Punjab News) American tennis veteran Venus Williams suffered defeat in her first WTA Tour semi-final in eight years after she and Indonesian partner Janice Tjen lost their Guangzhou Open doubles semi-final on Saturday. The 46-year-old Williams and Tjen saved four match points but eventually went down 4-6, 7-6 (8), 6-10 […]
Janice Tjen/Venus Williams failed to advance to the final of the 2026 Guangzhou Open after losing to Polina Kudermetova/Maria Timofeeva in a three-set duel.
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