{"id":58076,"date":"2026-08-26T21:11:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T21:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/58076\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T21:11:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T21:11:27","slug":"serena-williams-to-continue-us-open-return-with-unexpected-reunion-of-iconic-partnership-with-sister-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/58076\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams to continue US Open return with unexpected reunion of iconic partnership with sister Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Serena and Venus Williams have been will handed a wild card to enter the US Open.<\/p>\n

The sisters played together at the Cincinnati Open earlier this month and will return to Grand Slams at the venue they made their last major outing as a pair in 2022.<\/p>\n

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Serena and Venus dominated tennis for decadesCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

Serena <\/a>returned from a four-year hiatus during the grass court swing, but suffered a knee injury<\/a> in a first-round loss at Wimbledon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 44-year-old and older sister Venus then withdrew from doubles action.<\/p>\n

Venus <\/a>turned 46 in June but has been fairly active in recent years, appearing regularly in singles and doubles on the WTA Tour this season<\/p>\n

The sisters have won 14 Major titles and three Olympic gold medals as a pairing.<\/p>\n

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Two of those victories came at Flushing Meadows — in 1999 and 2009.<\/p>\n

Their opening match is set to be on September 3 or 4.<\/p>\n

Serena appeared with Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> in the mixed doubles tournament on Tuesday and won a thrilling first-round match before falling in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never expected to be back on this court,\u201d Williams said after their win. \u201cI never thought this would happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Venus Williams could be heading for retirement<\/p>\n

Venus will also play in the singles via a wild card, but Serena will not after the last one was handed to Sofia Kenin.<\/p>\n

She has lost 14 consecutive singles matches and Serena’s coach Rennae Stubbs thinks the elder sister will retire soon.<\/p>\n

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The sisters will hope to roll back the yearsCredit: Getty\"Some<\/a><\/p>\n

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Some have questioned whether the sisters should make way for younger starsCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

\u201cI am going to let Venus [Williams] decide when she wants to retire, and I am going to let the tournaments decide when they don\u2019t want to give her a wildcard,” she said on the The Rennae Stubbs Tennis Podcast.<\/p>\n

“She still puts bums on seats, she still sells, and people love to see her play.<\/p>\n

\u201cUntil the tournament decides that somebody else is more important to give a wild card to, that\u2019s up to them.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am going to be really honest with you. I was on the tennis court with her earlier today practicing, and I have never seen someone out there who loves tennis so much. She is practicing for hours and hours.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you think she is just rocking up and playing and not putting the work in, you are sorely wrong. She was out there for almost three hours today.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe is putting the effort in; she is working hard. I think we should appreciate her while we have her. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to be much longer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serena and Venus Williams have been will handed a wild card to enter the US Open. The sisters…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[21859,312,21067,1965,122,305,4810,28,3829,16309,21565,747,8060,8413,1209],"class_list":["post-58076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-14-grand-slam-doubles-titles","tag-arthur-ashe-stadium","tag-carlos-alcaraz-serena-williams","tag-flushing-meadows","tag-serena-williams","tag-serena-williams-comeback","tag-serena-williams-news","tag-tennis","tag-us-open-2026","tag-us-open-doubles","tag-us-open-wildcard","tag-venus-williams","tag-williams-sisters","tag-williams-sisters-doubles","tag-wta-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58076","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=58076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}