Venus Williams Husband Andrea Preti Marries After U.S. Open
Venus Williams husband Andrea Preti is now her husband after the pair married a few weeks after the 2025 U.S. Open. Williams tied the private milestone to a very public tennis comeback, having said during a match interview that Preti pushed her to stay in the draw.
Milan Fashion Week meeting
Williams said they met at the Gucci show during Milan Fashion Week, after she was in Lake Como on a sisters' trip and accepted a last-minute invitation. She added, “We met at the Gucci show” and said, “I was in Lake Como on a sisters' trip when I got an invite at the last minute and decided to go on a whim, and Andrea was tired. Neither of us was planning on being there.”
The couple made their first public appearance together on February 25 at the Dsquared2 womenswear show, where Williams wore a diamond ring on her left hand. That sighting came after boating photos off Italy’s Amalfi Coast in July 2024 and before the engagement rumors that followed a diamond-ring appearance during a tennis training session in Rome in February 2025.
July 22 at the D.C. Open
Williams confirmed her engagement on July 22 after winning her first-round match at the 2025 D.C. Open, and she used the moment to name Preti’s role in her return. “My fiancé is here and he really encouraged me to keep playing,” she said in the on-court interview with Rennae Stubbs.
That detail matters because Williams is not returning as a newcomer; she owns 49 singles titles, including two U.S. Open championships and five Wimbledon titles. Preti’s presence fits the way the relationship has been presented from the start: public, fashion-linked, and now folded into the career chapter Williams chose to extend.
Andrea Preti's Italian roots
Preti is half Italian and half Danish, grew up in Denmark, and moved to Italy as a teenager. He pursued modeling after getting involved with fashion in Italy, studied acting at the Susan Batson Academy in New York City, started with television commercials after arriving in New York, and has written and directed four films since 2013.
He also debuted One More Day and The Wolf Man back-to-back in 2014 and is developing an untitled project set in 19th-century southern Italy that addresses homophobia and societal prejudice. He said the wedding in Ischia was meant to be a beautiful gesture to his family, and he called the first vows there “It’s a dream.”
For Williams, the cleanest read is simple: this marriage is no side note to the tennis comeback. The relationship already moved through Rome, Milan, and Ischia; the next chapter is whether she keeps playing with the same momentum she said Preti helped preserve.
