{"id":1755,"date":"2026-10-27T12:46:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T12:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/27\/venus-williams-suffers-16th-defeat-in-a-row-with-loss-to-teenager\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T12:46:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T12:46:28","slug":"venus-williams-suffers-16th-defeat-in-a-row-with-loss-to-teenager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/27\/venus-williams-suffers-16th-defeat-in-a-row-with-loss-to-teenager\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus Williams suffers 16th defeat in a row with loss to teenager"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"677\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Venus-Williams-suffers-16th-defeat-in-a-row-with-loss-to-teenager.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Venus Williams suffers 16th defeat in a row with loss to teenager\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Venus-Williams-suffers-16th-defeat-in-a-row-with-loss-to-teenager.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/venus-williams-e1754603987489-300x198.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/venus-williams-e1754603987489-768x508.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/venus-williams-e1754603987489.jpeg 1346w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Venus Williams suffered her 16th loss in a row in singles tennis as the 46-year-old American icon was defeated by teenager Lilli Tagger in straight sets at the Guangzhou Open on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Austria\u2019s Tagger, who is 28 years younger than the former world number one, eased through 6-2, 6-2\u00a0in southern China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Williams, a seven-time Grand Slam singles champion, last won a singles match on the WTA Tour in July last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now ranked 599 in the world, Williams last played at the US Open in August-September, when she lost in the first round in straight sets to Sofia Kenin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Williams won in the doubles with Indonesia\u2019s Janice Tjen in Guangzhou on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They will play again on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 53rd-ranked Tagger faces Magda Linette of Poland in the next round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AFP<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/10\/venus-williams-suffers-16th-defeat-in-a-row-with-loss-to-teenager\/\">Venus Williams suffers 16th defeat in a row with loss to teenager<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\">Vanguard News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Vanguard News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venus Williams suffered her 16th loss in a row in singles tennis as the 46-year-old American icon was defeated by teenager Lilli Tagger in straight sets at the Guangzhou Open&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}