Venus Williams returned to the US Open for the first time in two years on Monday night and treated the capacity crowd in Arthur Ashe Stadium to a throwback evening.

Venus Williams made an impressive return to tennis this year and managed to make her way to the US Open, but she came up short in the first round.

That Venus Williams lost her first Grand Slam match in two years — and what she says will be her last match of 2025 — didn't really matter Monday night. Certainly not to the thousands of supportive spectators in the Arthur Ashe Stadium seats who roared for her best shots and,