{"id":842894,"date":"2026-08-04T06:04:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T06:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/842894\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T06:04:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T06:04:21","slug":"tennis-news-serena-and-venus-williams-given-us-open-wildcard-for-doubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/842894\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis news, Serena and Venus Williams given US Open wildcard for doubles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Serena Williams<\/a> and Venus Williams<\/a> are set to make their Cincinnati Open doubles debut this month after being awarded a wildcard, marking their return to doubles action for the first time since 2022.<\/p>\n

The Williams sisters have won 14 major doubles titles, including six at Wimbledon<\/a>, plus three Olympic<\/a> gold medals.<\/p>\n

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Serena and Venus Williams.\u00a0Tim Clayton<\/p>\n

They last played doubles together at the 2022 US Open<\/a>, where they lost to Czechs Lucie Hradecka and Linda Noskova.<\/p>\n

Last month, the sisters had to withdraw from the doubles at Wimbledon as Serena, 44, dealt with a knee injury<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The American\u2019s highly anticipated return to grand slam tennis after four years away was ended at Wimbledon in a first-round loss to Australian youngster Maya Joint in the singles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Venus, 46, has received a singles wildcard for the August 11 to 23 tournament in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n

Serena is a 23-time singles grand slam champion and regarded among the sport\u2019s most dominant performers ever.<\/p>\n

She effectively retired from tennis after being bundled out of the 2022 US Open singles draw by Aussie player Ajla Tomljanovic.<\/p>\n

Williams shocked the sporting world late last year when she suddenly re-entered the world doping pool<\/a>, meaning drug testers could demand a test from her at any time.<\/p>\n

The move was the first step in her remarkable comeback to the court<\/a>, which officially happened at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n

It is unknown if Serena will attempt to contest the US Open singles draw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serena Williams and Venus Williams are set to make their Cincinnati Open doubles debut this month after being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-842894","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\/842894","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=842894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}