Venus Williams returns a shot during the mixed doubles of the US Open Tennis Tournament competition in New York on Tuesday, August 19, 2025 (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura) Toi in New York: The house will not light up on Monday evening, it will explode the moment Venus Williams puts his foot in. There will be tennis, massive shots and greater serving, but the real spectacle will be that all -encompassing theater takes place around it.It could step out of the official vehicle in the National Tennis Center Billie Jean King in Needle, Red Lipstick and Scroll Eyes-Mini Skirts or Red Carpet Bathrobe. Williams can dial a drama before hitting a single ball.The 45-year-old, oldest player who played at the US Open in 44 years, will take up last year’s semifinalist 11 on Monday’s first night match on Arthur Ashe. “I want to be my best, this is the expectation I have for myself. That’s all that every player can ask for,” she said on Saturday, based on a tournament that appeared in 2000 and 2001, but where she hadn’t won since 2019, I didn’t play and I have been since 2019. 2019, and I was my personal best.
The fact that Williams is entering an event on a surrogate brand, 28 years after her tournament debut in 1997, is already a matter of legend. In the last two years, tennis was buzzed with speculation about whether Williams had retired. The debate gained in urgency after her sister Serena bowed great in 2022. When it comes to tennis media, notorious with words and information, she routinely refused questions about her future. Face questions, why would I tell you? The only conclusions that can be inferred came from tournament performances that have been decreasing in the last two years. Williams played seven events in 2023 and only two last year – Indian Wells and Miami. When she accepted a survivor to Washington, 16 months after the last competitive match, the sports world leaned. Williams revealed to return to the competition a year after he underwent a myomectomy – Surgery to remove uterine fibroids.Shortly thereafter, the American icon took the social media and urged people to defend their own health.“I was told that I was inoperable. I was told I could bleed on the table. I was told to get a replacement and forgot about the hope that I would bear my own children. I was poorly diagnosed. “I suffered from severe anemia, weakening pain, excessive bleeding and unusually frequent menstrual cycles for many years. It affected my tennis and trajectory of my career.”Williams said, “I told my story so that other women do not have to go through it and they can improve before.”A 45 -year -old man, a seven -time main winner, placed on 580 in the world, had a stormy medical history. She was diagnosed in 2011 Sjögren’s syndromeChronic autoimmune disease.Williams, who played a key role in ensuring the same prices in Wimbledon and Roland Garros, will be on Monday 25. The main draw in her home Grand Slam. “Love is the key, isn’t you? If you don’t love it, then get out of it,” Williams told reporters in Cincinnati. “A lot of motivation for me is just to come back and play at the best health I can. I never stopped hitting the ball, even though I was gone, not as intensely as if you were playing tournaments, but I kept going there.”In its fourth decade as a professional athlete, Williams’ passion for tennis is still shining.
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“I’ll always play tennis, it’s in my DNA,” she said toi in her pre -school media interaction. “It doesn’t matter if it’s now or 30 years old. God willing, I’ll be here, we’ll all be here, we’ll all beat the balls. Maybe I’ll get back to watch. I may say that it did better and it wouldn’t be true.On the biggest scene of tennis, Williams, a pioneer and a lover of tennis, he will again show how important.
