Sisters Serena and Venus Williams received an invitation letter from the US Open on Saturday to participate in the doubles tournament together, marking their return to the courts as a team for the first time since 2018.
It was the 2018 Roland Garros the last time Serena and Venus competed together and in that case they would stop in the third round, falling to the Spanish María José Martínez Sánchez and the Slovenian Andreja Klepac.
Serena and Venus won fourteen doubles ‘majors’ together, including the 1999 and 2009 US Opens.
It will in all likelihood be Serena’s last appearance in New York, after the 40-year-old veteran recently announced she is ready to leave tennis, suggesting it would be after the US Open.
Serena Williams became a professional tennis player at the age of 14. She has won 23 Grand Slam singles tournaments.
In 2002 he won his first Roland Garros precisely by defeating his sister Venus, and that same year he won his first Wimbledon.
Serena Williams has won the Australian Open seven times, another seven Wimbledon times, six US Opens and three Roland Garros.
Venus, 42, has won seven ‘majors’ in singles, with five Wimbledons and two US Opens.
The ‘great’ New Yorker will be held from August 29 to September 11.
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