Every participant who has crushed Venus Williams on her 17-match dropping streak as she makes undesirable historical past in Hong Kong

Venus Williams has lost in the first spherical of another event after struggling her seventeenth consecutive singles defeat at the Hong Kong Open.

Williams is one of the best WTA gamers of all time, having won seven Grand Slam singles titles, and 16 main doubles titles in ladies’s and blended doubles.

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The American is still competing on the WTA Tour at 46 years outdated, with Williams reaching a semi-final at the Guangzhou Open in doubles alongside Janice Tjen just last week.

While Williams is still profitable some matches in doubles, her search for another singles win has continued after dropping to her compatriot Mary Stoiana 6-2, 6-3 in her first spherical match at the Hong Kong Open.

Venus Williams has one of the longest dropping streaks in WTA historical past after Hong Kong defeat

Williams’ loss to Stoiana in Hong Kong was her seventeenth consecutive singles defeat in a row, which dates back to the Washington Open in 2025, when she beat Peyton Stearns to become the second-oldest girl to win a WTA Tour stage match.

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The former world quantity one has struggled ever since then, with Williams dropping all 17 matches she has performed since then, which consists of her going winless in 2026, despite taking part in her highest quantity of matches in a season since 2019.

During this run, Williams has won just 5 of the 39 units she has performed. Some of the gamers to beat Williams during this time embody Karolina Muchova, Sofia Kenin and Ajla Tomljanovic.

The closest Williams has come to profitable a match during this run came at the Australian Open earlier this yr, when she led Olga Danilovic 4-0 in the deciding set before dropping the last six video games of the match, and at the Bad Homburg Open against Irina-Camelia Begu, where she served for the match and was just two factors away from profitable the match in the third set tie-break.

Williams dropping her seventeenth consecutive match means that she has now become half of undesirable historical past, having now been on the joint-third longest dropping streak in WTA historical past, alongside Arantxa Rus and Sandy Collins.

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The two longest WTA dropping streaks are held by Madeleine Pegel, who lost 29 consecutive matches between 1968 and 1972, and Shuai Zhang, who lost 24 matches in a row across 2023 and 2024.

Williams will be hoping to keep away from reaching the numbers of Pegel and Zhang, but she will now have to wait until 2027 if she is to do so with the Hong Kong Open going down in the remaining week of the 2026 season on the WTA Tour.

While this is the last singles match Williams will play in 2026, she still has to play in the doubles event alongside Xu Yifan.