{"id":336185,"date":"2026-09-02T18:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336185\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T18:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:36:14","slug":"williams-sisters-set-to-face-serenas-wimbledon-opponent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336185\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams sisters set to face Serena\u2019s Wimbledon opponent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serena Williams is getting back on the court against Maya Joint \u2014 this time with <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/sports\/2026\/08\/31\/venus-williams-bows-out-of-us-open-with-a-1st-round-loss-to-sofia-kenin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sister Venus<\/a> by her side.<\/p>\n<p>The Williams sisters were drawn Tuesday to face the team of Hao-Ching Chan and <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/serena-williams-wimbledon-injury-1090624162043feaf753b48b9b3360da?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Joint, who beat Serena at Wimbledon<\/a> this summer, in their opening women&#8217;s doubles match at the U.S. Open.<\/p>\n<p>Serena Williams, 44, returned this year after four years out of action and lost to Joint, a 20-year-old from Australia, 6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-3. She injured her knee in the match and had to pull out of her planned doubles match at the All England Club with Venus, 46.<\/p>\n<p>But they are set to compete at the U.S. Open, where the Williams sisters won the title in 1999 and 2009 and are 27-7 in their nine appearances. They <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/us-open-tennis-championships-sports-venus-williams-linda-noskova-ec66303fd060e50168cf894888d46ca0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">last played in 2022<\/a>, losing in the first round in what was expected to be Serena\u2019s final match in Flushing Meadows.<\/p>\n<p>Joint and Chan are the No. 14-seeded team.<\/p>\n<p>The first round of the women\u2019s doubles tournament begins Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serena Williams is getting back on the court against Maya Joint \u2014 this time with sister Venus by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[11101,25,118,9,24,12,63,122,124,123,319,15547,27],"class_list":["post-336185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}