{"id":78094,"date":"2026-08-31T03:56:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T08:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/venus-williams-bows-out-after-2am-following-latest-start-in-us-open-history\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T03:56:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T08:56:33","slug":"venus-williams-bows-out-after-2am-following-latest-start-in-us-open-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/venus-williams-bows-out-after-2am-following-latest-start-in-us-open-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus Williams bows out after 2am following latest start in US Open history"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Kenin wins 6-2, 7-6 (6) in late-night contest<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Williams loses 15th straight tour-level match<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>First-round clash finally begins at 12.13am<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sunday had become Monday by the time Venus Williams finally emerged beneath the closed roof of Arthur Ashe Stadium, her entrance pushed deep into the night after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/aug\/31\/novak-djokovic-defeated-mariano-navone-us-open-first-round-earliest-exit-in-20-years\">Novak Djokovic\u2019s bruising defeat<\/a> by Argentina\u2019s Mariano Navone went the five-set distance. The first ball was struck at 12.13am, the latest start to a match in US Open history, yet several thousand spectators remained to watch a player who has been part of this tournament for as long as the building itself.<\/p>\n<p>At 46 years old, ranked 611th in the world and making her record-extending 26th US Open singles appearance, Williams has grown accustomed to making history simply by showing up. Even by those standards this latest installment was, as she would later describe it, \u201ccompletely insane\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/aug\/31\/venus-williams-sofia-kenin-us-open-first-round\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenin wins 6-2, 7-6 (6) in late-night contest Williams loses 15th straight tour-level match First-round clash finally begins at 12.13am Sunday had become Monday by the time Venus Williams finally emerged beneath the closed roof of Arthur Ashe Stadium, her entrance pushed deep into the night after Novak Djokovic\u2019s bruising defeat by Argentina\u2019s Mariano Navone &#8230; <a title=\"Venus Williams bows out after 2am following latest start in US Open history\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/venus-williams-bows-out-after-2am-following-latest-start-in-us-open-history\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Venus Williams bows out after 2am following latest start in US Open history\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}