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Venus Williams Loses Temper Mid-Match
January 13, 2026 | Edition #332
Venus Williams came to Hobart looking to fine-tune her game ahead of the season’s first Grand Slam. But her stay was cut short with a first-round loss. What really caught people’s attention, though, wasn’t the tennis, it was a moment of visible frustration from the American mid-match.
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Venus Williams was defeated in her opening match of the Australian tournament by Tatjana Maria, who won 6-4 and 6-3 in 1 hour and 28 minutes of play.
The Hobart meeting between Tatjana Maria, 38, and the 45-year-old Williams was the highest combined age for a main-draw event in WTA history. The match, the first between the two veterans, featured a combined age of more than 84 years—making it the oldest match since the 1973 founding of the WTA tour. Perhaps fittingly, it came a week after the 38-year-old Maria was beaten in the first round of the Brisbane International by 17-year-old Aussie Emerson Jones.
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