SportsLine tennis expert Blake Von Hagen reveals his 2025 Mubadala Citi DC Open picks for Tuesday's women's first-round match between Peyton Stearns and Venus Williams

On 22 July 2025, Venus Williams made a stunning return to singles tennis with a 6–3, 6–4 victory over rising American star Peyton Stearns at the Citi DC Open. The match, held at the William H.G. Fitzgerald Tennis Center in Washington,

Venus Williams became the second-oldest woman to win a tour-level singles match in professional tennis while beating Peyton Stearns — 22 years her junior — by a 6-3, 6-4 score at the DC Open on Tuesday night.

Williams, 45, accepted a wild card into the singles draw of the WTA 500 tournament, having last played an official match at the 2024 Miami Open. Her last win came in 2023 at the Cincinnati Open, where she defeated then-world No. 16 Veronika Kudermetova.

In men's action at the hard-court tournament, Cam Norrie eliminated No. 2 seed Lorenzo Musetti 3-6, 6-2, 6-3, keeping the Italian without a win since he got injured last month at the French Open and needed to quit playing in the semifinals. Musetti lost in the first round at Wimbledon, a year after reaching the semifinals there.