Getting older is not fazing Williams as the 45-year-old athlete recently became the second-oldest woman to win a tour-level singles match in professional tennis when she beat Peyton Stearns with a 6-3, 6-4 score at the DC Open last month.

Venus Williams fell in the first round of the Cincinnati Open on Thursday to Jessica Bouzas Maneiro in straight sets (6-4, 6-4).

“The colorful beads and butterfly hair clips that marked the teenage style of Venus Williams were gone. From the moment she strode onto Center Court today, the streamlined 20-year-old with the Paul Bunyan backswing had the look of a serious young woman. A scowl was as good as any accessory.