Venus Williams returned to the USTA Billie King Tennis Center’s Arthur Ashe Stadium on Monday for the 2025 U.S. Open in New York City’s Flushing Meadows. The venerated athlete and seven-time Grand Slam champion wore a custom ERL tennis kit, featuring historic tennis whites and a sartorial nod to one of the sport’s greatest trailblazers.

Williams’ 2025 U.S. Open look was curated by stylist Ronald Burton 3rd, whom the athlete first met on a cover shoot for Document Journal. “Her energy was so calm, excited and infectious, she is a person that makes you immediately feel like family even if it’s just been a few hours,” Burton said of the athlete.

When Burton got the call to style Williams for her U.S. Open return, the stylist new he would have to merge “the worlds of fashion and sport,

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