By Richard Pagliaro | Thursday, August 7, 2025
Photo Credit: Cincinnati Open Facebook
Races up to the floating ball in Midcourt, Venus Williams Whipped a volleyball of the precursor car in the corner.
The 45-year-old Williams showed a vintage form on her return to Cincinnati.
Across the net, Jessica Bouzas Mana maintained a higher level throughout the fall of Williams 6-4, 6-4 in today’s opening of Cincinnati Open.
The 22-year-old Spanish held a four-game run at the end of the first set and won the last three games of the match at an 87-minute triumph.
She ended up with fans – and Bouzas Maneiro himself – setting the ex. 1 Williams with a walking ovation after a strong performance.
Bouzas Maneiro moved to a second round VS Washington collision, DC Champion Leylah Fernandez.
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Jessica Bouzas Maneiro fights the past Williams, 6-4, 6-4, to reach the second round in Cincinnati.#Cincytennis Pic.twitter.com/a5s4vzy9ex
– wta (@wta) August 7 2025
Meanwhile, Williams, who began her return by annoying her compatriot Peyton Stearns in Washington, DC, is 1-2 in her return and has shown enough quality to earn an open US Open card if she wants one.
The seven -time champion Grand Slam, who has a double -digit US cardboard mixed with good friend Reilly Opelka, is the living tasting tennis is really an eternal sport. It would be a convenient way for Usta to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Williams Maiden US US Open with a wild single-like card and an opportunity for Flushing Meadows fans to share the four-time Olympic Gold Medal Champion.
Today, you may have been waiting for Bouzas Maneiro to go out playing Crosscourt Corner in Corner to challenge the veteran’s movement. Through the first six games, she did not make her-instead of choosing to try to connect Williams with long limbs with deep discs in the middle. This tact helped Bouzas Maneiro take a 4-1 lead as Williams fought to support her second service.
Williams won only 8 of the 29 points of the second service while Bouzas Maneiro broke out six times, but when Wimbledon’s five-time winner did its first service in the Deuce-Ijo Court was playing the first blow tennis tennis.
Opposing her 11th Cincinnati Open, Williams showed her strong will and a strict slider served by organizing a three-game rally to level 4.
All that good job was distributed when Williams sailed one back and Bouzas Maneiro won her third set of set for a 5-4 lead.
However, Williams competed with deep desire. When the Spaniard tested the legs of the 45-year-old legend with a quick blow, Williams easily ran it and traveled a first-line winner of the line for rest in the 10th match.
On the eve of the decay, the rust of Williams showed. She scored three three money in the next four points. At the second point of Bouzas Maneiro, Williams scored a background while the Spaniard sealed the 41-minute opening group.
Bouzas Maneiro used a double fracture to start the second set and slipped a down service t to climb 2-0.
At that point, it seemed like the match could slip. Williams had other ideas returning to the fourth match at level 2.
Although she lacks the first quick step and speed of closing her prime minister’s eyes, when Williams gets her body weight behind the ball, she can still lead the deep drives. She showed that the ability by hitting a front car below the line, then grabbing a break when the Spaniard folded a slight stroke in the net to break for 3. A williams bite service helped her go 4-3.
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Bouzas Maneiro foretold below the line was a weapon when it needed the most. World no. 51 used that stroke to help him maintain 4th. A winner of the return of the Maneiro Pure Buzas, below the line, closed the essential rest for 5-4.
Knewing, Aga Radwanska style, Bouzas Maneiro left a strange return to open the 10th match. At its second point of the match, the Bouzas Maneiro slider serves below the closed Williams’ Cincinnati to return to full 13 years after she reached the semifinals losing to Li Na.
