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Venus Williams has a 54-21 profession win-loss file on the Australian Open. (AP Photograph)
Former World No 1 Venus Williams is a two-time finalist and the 42-year-old can be making her twenty second look within the event
American legend and seven-time main champion Venus Williams has been awarded a wild card into the ladies’s singles essential draw of the 2023 Australian Open, the yr’s first Grand Slam.
Venus, the previous World No 1, is a two-time finalist and the 42-year-old can be making her twenty second look within the event that begins on January 16 at Melbourne Park right here. Venus made her first look right here in 1998.
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“I’m very excited to be returning to Melbourne to compete on the Australian Open in January,” mentioned Williams, who owns a 54-21 profession win-loss file on the Australian Open the place she made her debut 25-year in the past.
“I’ve been competing within the nation for over 20 years now and the Australian neighborhood has at all times supported me wholeheartedly. Will probably be an honour to play for the followers once more and I’m trying ahead to creating extra recollections on the event this yr,” Williams was quoted as saying by the organisers in a launch on Monday.
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Along with her appearances within the finals of 2003 and 2017, former world No.1 Williams has reached at the very least the quarterfinal stage on 9 events.
In doubles, she and her sister Serena Williams mixed to win the ladies’s title 4 instances — 2001, 2003, 2009 and 2010 — and he or she additionally captured the blended doubles crown in 1998 with Justin Gimelstob.
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