Venus Williams loses to Kaitlin Quevedo in the opening round of the Madrid Open

[p]The 20-year-old Spanish wild card beat the seven-time Grand Slam champion [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/tennis/quevedo-k-Ovyv04To/williams-v-M7dojKaa/?mid=Wr6Yvu5F"]6-2, 6-4[/a] in just under one hour and 45 minutes on court.[/p][p]Ranked 479th in the world, [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/williams-venus/M7dojKaa/"]Williams[/a] has now lost all seven matches she has played this season. It was her first match on clay since Roland Garros five years ago.[/p][embed guid="8c4d0ad5-1071-4923-a552-f72bc042832c" url="https://x.com/WTA/status/2046641095715541334" social-type="twitter" /][p]Every game was closely contested in a first set marked by numerous unforced errors due to the wind blowing across the Estadio Manolo Santana but the world number 140, playing in her first 1000-level event, was the more consistent of the two.[/p][p]Williams got off to a better start in the second set, taking a 3-0 lead, before [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/quevedo-kaitlin/Ovyv04To/"]Quevedo[/a] began to fight back and the match was then interrupted by rain while the roof over the centre court was closed.[/p][p]Quevedo won five consecutive games to seal her passage to the second round.[/p]