{"id":842382,"date":"2026-08-03T19:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T19:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/842382\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T19:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T19:28:08","slug":"serena-and-venus-williams-set-to-play-doubles-in-cincinnati-as-us-open-nears-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/842382\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena and Venus Williams set to play doubles in Cincinnati as US Open nears | Tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Serena Williams and Venus Williams are \u2060set to make their Cincinnati Open doubles debut this \u2060month after being \u2060awarded \u200ba wild card on Monday, marking their return \u2060to doubles action for the first time since 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The Williams sisters \u2060have won 14 major doubles \u200btitles, including six \u200cat Wimbledon, \u200cplus three Olympic gold medals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">They last \u200cplayed doubles together at the 2022 US Open, where they lost to Czechs Lucie Hradecka and Linda Noskova.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Last month, the sisters had to \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jul\/04\/serena-williams-injury-ends-doubles-hopes-wimbledon-venus-tennis\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">withdraw<\/a> from the doubles draw at Wimbledon as Serena, 44, \u200bdealt with a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The American\u2019s highly anticipated return to grand slam tennis after four years away \u2060was ended at Wimbledon in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jun\/30\/maya-joint-serena-williams-comeback-wimbledon-2026-womens-singles-first-round-tennis\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a first-round \u200bloss<\/a> \u200bto Australian youngster \u200bMaya Joint in the \u200bsingles. Venus, 46, \u200chas received \u200ba \u200bsingles wild card for tournament in Cincinnati, which begins 11 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The US Open begins 31 August in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serena Williams and Venus Williams are \u2060set to make their Cincinnati Open doubles debut this \u2060month after being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-842382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}