Venus Williams is about to make her twenty fourth look within the singles draw at Wimbledon after the 43-year-old American was given a wild-card entry on Wednesday.
Williams is a five-time Wimbledon singles champion and was a finalist on the grass-court main in 2017, 20 years after her debut on the All England Membership.
Ranked 697th, Williams beat Forty eighth-ranked Camila Giorgi 7-6 (5), 4-6, 7-6 (6) on Monday on the Birmingham Traditional. It was her first victory over a participant within the high 50 in almost 4 years.
The seven-time Grand Slam champion subsequent performs Jelena Ostapenko on the Wimbledon warm-up occasion.
Williams’ youthful sister Serena is a seven-time Wimbledon champion. Serena Williams misplaced within the first spherical finally 12 months’s event and shortly after introduced her determination to step away from tennis.
Ukrainian participant Elina Svitolina and British gamers Heather Watson and Katie Boulter have been additionally given wild playing cards for the ladies’s draw. David Goffin, a Belgian who reached the Wimbledon quarterfinals in 2019 and 2022, was among the many males given wild playing cards. Wimbledon begins on July 3.
