PARIS – Venus Williams will compete in girls’s doubles at this month’s French Open with Hayley Baptiste, who’s 21 years her junior.
The American pair had been among the many rivals confirmed Wednesday by organizers for the Roland Garros clay courtroom event, which begins Could 24 in western Paris.
Williams, 45, is not going to compete within the girls’s singles.
Williams entered the Australian Open as a wild card, however misplaced within the first spherical, making her the oldest feminine participant to compete within the Australian Open singles foremost draw.
Williams, a seven-time main singles champion, beforehand held the No. 1 rating in each singles and doubles.
Williams misplaced to her sister Serena within the French Open singles remaining in 2002, they usually received the French Open doubles twice in 1999 and 2010.
