{"id":193011,"date":"2025-09-02T02:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T02:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/193011\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T02:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T02:36:10","slug":"venus-williams-and-leylah-fernandez-reach-us-open-doubles-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/193011\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus Williams and Leylah Fernandez reach US Open doubles quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Venus Williams is into the U.S. Open<\/a> women\u2019s doubles quarterfinals with Leylah Fernandez and now wants her old partner to come back. She says it\u2019s time for Serena Williams to come see a match.<\/p>\n

Williams made the plea for her younger sister to show up after she and Fernandez<\/a> beat the 12th-seeded duo of Ekaterina Alexandrova and Zhang Shuai 6-3, 6-4 in their third-round match Monday in front of a capacity crowd at Louis Armstrong Stadium.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s so happy for Leylah and I, and she\u2019s given us advice,\u201d Williams said. \u201cWe just need her in the box. So, my message is, \u2018Serena, you need to show up.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Williams and Fernandez will play Tuesday against the top-seeded team of Taylor Townsend<\/a> and Katerina Siniakova.<\/p>\n

The Williams sisters won 14 major championships together. Even if Serena chooses not to attend, she\u2019s definitely watching.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe gave me a pep talk and made sure to call me today. I was, like, \u2018You\u2019re right. I got it. I got it,\u2019\u201d Venus said.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s definitely coaching from afar. She\u2019s so excited. She gets so nervous watching, and she\u2019s got the kids watching. They\u2019re all at home, just really on our side.\u201d<\/p>\n

Venus said she was sent a video of her two nieces watching the match and yelling her name. <\/p>\n

Williams and Fernandez had not played together until last week, when they received a wild-card entry<\/a> into the field at the Grand Slam tournament. They are now 3-0<\/a> and have not lost a set in the process.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re on the same wavelength, and hopefully we can keep it going,\u201d Williams said.<\/p>\n

With the stands packed at Armstrong and a wait to get in to see Williams and Fernandez, the 45-year-old American and 22-year-old Canadian needed just an hour and 14 minutes to move on. <\/p>\n

\u201cI have full confidence in Venus, and I hope she has full confidence in me during our match,\u201d Fernandez said. \u201cWe\u2019re just going out there, playing our game: Be offensive, aggressive and ready for the ball.\u201d<\/p>\n

Venus has called Fernandez her best partner other than Serena. She joked that Serena didn\u2019t have any advice for Fernandez, the 2021 U.S. Open runner-up in singles.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I guess you\u2019re playing perfect,\u201d Williams said to her partner during their press conference.<\/p>\n

Serena hasn\u2019t played since the 2022 U.S. Open. If she does return to Flushing Meadows, it sounds as if Venus would expect her to bring a racket. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf she came, it would be a dream for both of us and we\u2019d have her on the court coaching.,\u201d Venus said. \u201cWe\u2019d force her to hit, even though she doesn\u2019t hit often. It\u2019s probably best she doesn\u2019t come because we\u2019d probably bully her.\u201d<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP tennis: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Venus Williams is into the U.S. Open women\u2019s doubles quarterfinals with Leylah Fernandez and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":193012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[8644,8646,405,403,5224,62,15678,1464,62213,67,132,68,46604],"class_list":{"0":"post-193011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ekaterina-alexandrova","9":"tag-katerina-siniakova","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-serena-williams","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-taylor-townsend","15":"tag-tennis","16":"tag-u-s-open-tennis-championships","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-venus-williams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115132378967167852","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}