The last four is here at the 2025 DC Open in Washington with four players remaining in the WTA Draw in Elena Rybakina, Emma Raducanu, Leylah Fernandez and Anna Kalinskaya who will vie for the title

Despite having to cut her historic return to WTA tournaments short, Venus Williams remained positive about her run.

The WTA 500 DC Open Washington will take place from July 21 to July 26, 2025, in the United States capital. This tournament definitively kicks off the American hardcourt swing with a strong draw.

The qualifying rounds are over and the main draw is set at this week's Mubadala Citi DC Open. Held at the William H.G. Fitzgerald Tennis Center in Rock Creek Park, the annual tournament features ATP and WTA pros and kicks off the North American hardcourt season,

After defying the adage of age in the DC Open, Venus Williams was eliminated in the second round of the doubles tournament

Venus Williams became the oldest woman to win a WTA tour-level singles match in 21 years on Tuesday, when she defeated 35th-ranked Peyton Stearns, 6-3, 6-4 in the first round of the Mubadala Citi DC Open on Tuesday evening.

Venus Williams made a winning return to the WTA singles tour after a one-year hiatus. The 45-year-old defeated Peyton Stearns 6-3, 6-4 in the first round of the DC Citi Open to become the oldest WTA player to win a match after 47-year-old Martina Navratilova at Wimbledon in 2004.

Williams owns a record of 818-278 throughout her lengthy WTA Tour singles career, winning 49 singles titles. She emerged victorious at Wimbledon five times, with her two other Grand Slam wins occurring at the U.S. Open.

Top seed Taylor Fritz romped into the last 16 at the ATP/WTA DC Open on Wednesday as Russian eighth seed Daniil Medvedev overcame an early scare to advance to the third round.