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Venus Williams is based in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, the area she and her family have been publicly associated with for years. She also spends time in Italy, where her husband Andrea Preti is from and where the couple held their first wedding ceremony in 2025. Exact addresses are private and not something we will speculate about.

American. She was born in Lynwood, California, on June 17, 1980, and has represented the United States for her entire career, including four Olympic gold medals (Sydney 2000, Beijing 2008, London 2012) and a mixed doubles silver in Rio 2016.

Venus Williams is 46 years old. She was born on June 17, 1980, and turned professional in 1994 at the age of 14, which makes her 2026 US Open appearance part of one of the longest careers in the history of professional tennis.

Venus Williams is 6 feet 1 inch tall (185 cm). That height, paired with an exceptional wingspan, is a large part of why her serve was one of the most feared in the women's game for two decades.

Yes. The USTA gave her one of the women's singles wild cards, announced in the week of August 19, 2026. At 46 she is the oldest woman in the US Open singles main draw since Renee Richards in 1981, and it is the tournament where she won back-to-back titles in 2000 and 2001. Sources: USTA, Olympics.com.

Sofia Kenin, the 2020 Australian Open champion, in an all-American first round scheduled as a night-session match on Arthur Ashe Stadium at the end of day one (August 30 into the early hours of August 31 New York time). Kenin has had a difficult season herself, so this was one of the more open first-round matches on the card. Sources: US Open, ATP/WTA schedules.

Yes. The sisters received a doubles wild card, announced by the US Open on August 26, 2026. It is their first appearance as a pair at Flushing Meadows since 2022. They played their first competitive match together since then at the Cincinnati Open, where they lost in the first round to Marta Kostyuk and Peyton Stearns 6-2, 1-6, [8-10]. Sources: US Open, WTA.

Seven in singles: five Wimbledon titles and two US Opens (2000 and 2001). She has also won 14 Grand Slam women's doubles titles, every one of them alongside her sister Serena, and two mixed doubles majors. Her career total is 49 WTA singles titles and 22 doubles titles.

Four. She won singles and doubles gold at Sydney 2000, then doubles gold with Serena at Beijing 2008 and London 2012. She added a mixed doubles silver at Rio 2016 with Rajeev Ram, which makes her one of the most decorated tennis players in Olympic history.

Low, and it is a function of how little she has played rather than a ranking she is defending. She was around No. 479 in the WTA rankings in April 2026 and has spent most of the last few seasons off tour with injuries and surgery. That is exactly why she needed a wild card to get into the US Open main draw. Sources: WTA.

By her own account, because she wanted to come back on her own terms rather than fade out through injury. She returned to competition in 2025 after a long absence, played the doubles at Roland-Garros 2026 with Hailey Baptiste, and has framed 2026 as a milestone season rather than a farewell tour. She has not won a tour-level match yet this year, and she has been open that the wins are not the only point.

She was diagnosed with Sjogren's syndrome in 2011, an autoimmune condition whose most common symptoms are dry eyes, dry mouth, joint pain and severe fatigue. She has spoken publicly about it for years and changed her diet to manage it. In 2025 she also disclosed that she had lived with uterine fibroids and an adenomyoma for a long time before having surgery, and she has campaigned for women to get pelvic pain taken seriously. Sources: Sjogren's Foundation, published interviews.

Yes. She is married to Andrea Preti, an Italian-Danish actor and producer. They met at a Gucci show during Milan Fashion Week in 2024, he proposed in Tuscany in January 2025, and they married in Ischia, Italy, on September 18, 2025, followed by a legal ceremony in Palm Beach, Florida. Sources: ABC News, TODAY.

No. She has spoken publicly about her health and about fibroid surgery, and she has not announced any children. Her sister Serena has two daughters.

Two that she has built over many years: EleVen, her activewear label, and V Starr, her interior design firm based in Florida. She has also been an investor and a persistent public campaigner for equal prize money in tennis, a fight she helped win at Wimbledon in 2007.

Financial media typically put it in the range of 90 to 100 million dollars, built from prize money, endorsements, EleVen and V Starr. These are journalistic estimates, not disclosed figures, and no public figure's exact net worth is confirmed to the dollar.

Five times: 2000, 2001, 2005, 2007 and 2008. She also reached the final in 2002, 2003, 2009 and 2017. Wimbledon grass, and the way it rewards a big flat serve and a first strike off the return, was always the surface that suited her best.

Venus, by a little over a year. Venus was born on June 17, 1980 and Serena on September 26, 1981. Venus turned professional first, in 1994, and reached world No. 1 in 2002.