Venus Williams Knocked Out of U.S. Open in 2nd Round by Kerber
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Two-time champion Venus Williams was knocked out of the U.S. Open in the second round by sixth-seeded Angelique Kerber of Germany, completing a year of early-round Grand Slam exits for the 32-year-old American.
Williams, unseeded this year and ranked 46th in the world, has struggled for the past two years with Sjogren’s syndrome, an energy-sapping autoimmune disease.