{"id":33399,"date":"2025-07-30T03:54:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T03:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/33399\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T03:54:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T03:54:17","slug":"venus-williams-to-play-in-us-open-tennis-legend-receives-wild-card-entry-into-mixed-doubles-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/33399\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus Williams to play in US Open: Tennis legend receives wild-card entry into mixed doubles tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Article-featuredImageImg\" alt=\"venus-getty.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/venus-getty.png\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"433\" width=\"770\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Venus Williams will continue her professional tennis comeback at the US Open. The seven-time singles grand slam champion received a wild-card entry for the mixed doubles event alongside fellow American Reilly Opelka, the U.S. Tennis Association association <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usopen.org\/en_US\/news\/articles\/2025-07-29\/2025_us_open_mixed_doubles_championship_takes_shape_with_14_team_acceptances.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, 45, returned to the WTA Tour last week at the D.C. Open after more than a year away, defeating Peyton Stearns 6-3, 6-4 in the round of 32 to become the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/tennis\/news\/tennis-legend-venus-williams-wins-first-singles-match-since-2023-delivers-nine-aces\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">oldest woman to win a WTA Tour-level match since Martina Navratilova in 2004<\/a>. Williams lost to Magdalena Frech 6-2, 6-2 in the round of 16. She also won a doubles match alongside Hailey Baptiste at the event.<\/p>\n<p>Opelka, 27, stands 6-foot-11 and has a massive serve. He reached as high as No. 17 in the world rankings in 2022 but has had significant injury issues recently.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/tennis\/news\/tennis-legend-venus-williams-wins-first-singles-match-since-2023-delivers-nine-aces\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>Tennis legend Venus Williams wins first singles match since 2023, delivers nine aces<\/p>\n<p>\n                    Jordan Dajani                <\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" alt=\"Tennis legend Venus Williams wins first singles match since 2023, delivers nine aces\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/untitled-design-2025-07-22t193932-143.png\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"152\" width=\"270\"\/><\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The USTA made significant changes to the mixed doubles event, raising the prize money and altering the schedule so it doesn&#8217;t conflict with the singles event, in order to draw bigger names, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/venus-williams-opelka-us-open-mixed-doubles-26cd481301b70a0ab23b0fac508ad4eb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to the Associated Press<\/a>. The event takes place over two days &#8212; Aug. 19 and 20 &#8212; the week before the singles portion of the tournament begins.<\/p>\n<p>The effort seems to have worked. Also in the mixed doubles field are men&#8217;s world No. 1 Jannik Sinner and No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz, who have combined to win all three singles slam titles this year. American men&#8217;s standouts Taylor Fritz and Ben Shelton are also in the field. The highest-ranked woman participating in mixed doubles is No. 3 Iga Swiatek.<\/p>\n<p>Williams still could request &#8212; and potentially receive &#8212; a wild-card entry for the singles event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images Venus Williams will continue her professional tennis comeback at the US Open. 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