Venus Williams beat a player in the world’s top 20 for the first time in four years and advanced to the second round of the Cincinnati tennis tournament. The 43-year-old American defeated the number 16 seeded Russian Veronika Kudermetowa on Monday (local time) following being 1:4 behind in both sets 6:4,7:5. Since 2019, the seven-time Grand Slam winner had lost ten games in a row once morest top 20 players.