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.

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.

The elder Williams was off the tennis tour for 16 months until making a comeback at a tournament in Washington last month, where she won one match each in singles and doubles. She hadn't competed anywhere since the Miami Open in March 2024, and had surgery for uterine fibroids later last year.