Venus Williams scored a straight sets upset of 16th seed Veroninka Kudermetova at the ATP/WTA Cincinnati Open, bagging her first win over a top 20 player in four years.
The 43-year-old American veteran, who was granted a wild card into this week’s tournament, rallied superbly to polish off Kudermetova 6-4, 7-5.
The seven-time Grand Slam singles champion, whose career has spanned four different decades, showed great heart to recover from 4-1 down in the opening set before overturning a 5-1 deficit in the second to seal victory. I love this game, it’s what I do,” Williams said in on-court remarks after her victory against the Russian world number 14.
“The last few years have been difficult in terms of injuries,” Williams added. I want to be able to be out here and be strong, and be myself and that’s important to me, and I’m trying to get there. Williams, a semi-finalist at Cincinnati in 2012, saw her match interrupted by rain before she completed her victory.
Source: eNCA
In other news – Orange is the New Black star Taryn Manning admits to affair with married man
Taryn Manning is coming clean. The Orange Is the New Black alum confessed to having an affair with an unnamed married man and apologized for sharing a since-deleted video of herself addressing his wife—once she learned he wasn’t single.
“Over the past few days, I’ve had some time to reflect on the situation I’ve been dealing with,” Manning began in a candid Instagram statement posted on Aug. 14. Read more
