Watch: Williams, Alcaraz send crowd into raptures with INCREDIBLE point <\/p>\n
Video credit: SNTV<\/p>\n
Serena, 44, made her comeback<\/a> to the sport this summer after four years away, competing in the doubles at Queen’s and getting the singles wildcard at Wimbledon<\/a>, where she lost to 20-year-old Maya Joint in three sets.<\/p>\n She suffered a knee injury during the Grand Slam, though, which proved a setback in her return.<\/p>\n “That was a little traumatic experience for me,” she said earlier this month. “Took me like two hours to leave the locker room that night. <\/p>\n “And it’s been a long recovery, which is something I never thought I’d say because I never thought I’d be here sitting talking to you all again. But you know, what doesn’t kill you make you stronger, and so it’s good.”<\/p>\n Venus, 46, has continued to play both singles and doubles on the WTA Tour, most recently losing to Emiliana Arango at the Cincinnati Open.<\/p>\n The sisters also played together in Cincinnati, beaten in three sets by Marta Kostyuk and Peyton Stearns.<\/p>\n Serena starred alongside Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> in the US Open<\/a> mixed doubles this week, reaching the quarter-finals, while Venus has also been handed a wildcard for the singles draw.<\/p>\n The greats have won 14 major doubles titles together, most recently winning as a duo at Wimbledon in 2016.<\/p>\n They have never lost a major doubles final together, but they will not be amongst the favourites a decade on from their last success.<\/p>\n Serena and Venus will begin their doubles campaign on September 3 or September 4.<\/p>\n The former demonstrated her lasting quality alongside Alcaraz in the mixed doubles, entertaining the crowd despite a quarter-final loss to Belinda Bencic and Flavio Cobolli.<\/p>\n “It’s always amazing to be here. I never expected to be back on this court,” she said. <\/p>\n “It was just a really cool moment. I never thought this would happen.”<\/p>\n Alcaraz, who had made his long-awaited return to action after missing several months with a wrist injury, said: “I think everyone could see I was really nervous, I double-faulted on the first point.<\/p>\n “I was out for almost five months and I almost forgot how it feels stepping out on the court once again.<\/p>\n “It [took] just a couple of games [to settle] and she made it very easy for me to enjoy it and try to go for it.”<\/p>\n Add TNT Sports as a preferred source here<\/a>\u00a0to enjoy more content like this.Download the TNT Sports app on iPhone<\/a>\u00a0and Android.<\/a>Watch and stream top tennis action – including the 2027 Australian Open and 2027 French Open – live on TNT Sports and HBO Max<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch: Williams, Alcaraz send crowd into raptures with INCREDIBLE point Video credit: SNTV Serena, 44, made her comeback…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28,21789],"class_list":["post-57916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-tennis","tag-us-open-womens-doubles-2026-w"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}