{"id":726551,"date":"2026-08-03T21:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T21:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/726551\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T21:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T21:24:11","slug":"serena-venus-williams-set-to-play-womens-doubles-in-cincinnati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/726551\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena &#038; Venus Williams set to play women&#8217;s doubles in Cincinnati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Serena and Venus Williams have been given a wildcard entry for the women&#8217;s doubles at the Cincinnati Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The sisters were scheduled to play together at Wimbledon in July until Serena, 44, picked up a knee injury in her singles comeback loss to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cx2kr12ggv9o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australia&#8217;s Maya Joint.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The WTA 1000 event which runs from 11-23 August in Ohio will be the first time the siblings have played doubles together since the 2022 US Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It could also pave the way for Serena to return to play in the US Open this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her third-round loss at New York&#8217;s Flushing Meadows four years ago had been her last appearance at a Grand Slam until she featured at the All England Club this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She is currently one short of the all-time record of 24 Grand Slam singles titles, jointly held by Margaret Court and Novak Djokovic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Together, Venus and Serena have won 14 major titles and three Olympic gold medals in doubles. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Venus, 46, has also received a wildcard into the singles draw of the tournament in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serena and Venus Williams have been given a wildcard entry for the women&#8217;s doubles at the Cincinnati Open.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-726551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}