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Serena, Venus Williams get US Open doubles wild-card entry
Serena Williams, left, of the United States, and her sister Venus examine the championship trophy after winning the women's doubles championship over Cara Black, of Zimbabwe, and Liezel Huber, of the United States, at the US Open tennis tournament in New York, Monday, September 14, 2009. Serena and Venus Williams were given a wild-card entry for women's doubles at the US Open on Saturday, August 27, 2022, making it their first tournament as a team in more than four years. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)
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August 27, 2022

Serena, Venus Williams get US Open doubles wild-card entry

NEW YORK (AP) — Serena and Venus Williams are getting their Sister Act back together for doubles at the US Open.

The American siblings, who have won two of their 14 women’s doubles Grand Slam titles at Flushing Meadows, were given a wild-card entry by the US Tennis Association on Saturday, making it their first tournament as a team in more than four years.

Serena announced this month that she is preparing to end her playing career and, while she did not explicitly say the US Open would be her final event, she has indicated it will be.

Serena, who turns 41 next month, and Venus, who turned 42 in June, won women’s doubles championships at the US Open in 1999 — the year Serena won her first major singles trophy at age 17 in New York — and 2009.

Their other Grand Slam triumphs in doubles: six at Wimbledon, four at the Australian Open and two at the French Open. The most recent came at the All England Club in 2016.

They’ve also won three doubles gold medals at the Olympics.

That’s all aside from their combined total of 30 major trophies in singles — 23 for Serena, and seven for Venus.

The sisters have not competed anywhere in doubles as a pairing since losing in the third round of the French Open in June 2018.

Since then, each Williams has entered two doubles events with other partners.

Other women’s doubles teams receiving wild cards from the USTA on Saturday were Sophie Chang and Angela Kulikov, Robin Montgomery and CoCo Vandeweghe, Katrina Scott and Elizabeth Mandlik, Peyton Stearns and Ashlyn Krueger, Hailey Baptiste and Whitney Osuigwe, and Clervie Ngounoue and Reese Brantmeier.

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