Serena & Venus Williams Receive U.S. Open Doubles Wild Card

UNITED STATES - SEPTEMBER 14: US Open 2009 Womens Doubles Finals: Holding winners Trophy Cup Serena Williams and Venus Williams defeat Cara Black and Liezel Huber. (Photo by Howard Earl Simmons/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)

Serena and Venus Williams have received a wild card entry into the 2026 U.S. Open Women’s Doubles Championship.

The Williams sisters have played doubles together at the U.S. Open nine times (1997, ‘99, 2000-01, ‘09, ‘12-14, ‘22), going 27-7 and winning both the 1999 and 2009 titles. Serena played in the U.S. Open’s Mixed Doubles Championship on Tuesday with Carlos Alcaraz, where they reached the quarterfinals.

The Williams sisters received a wild card to play doubles at Wimbledon, but they withdrew before playing their first-round match due to a knee injury Serena sustained during her singles match.

Serena, 44, will not play singles in the women’s draw, as Sofia Kenin, the 2020 Australian Open champion, received the final singles Wild Card.

Serena has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, including six at the U.S. Open. She last singles played at the Open in 2022, losing a third-round singles match to Ajla Tomljanović 7-5, 6-7(4), 6-1. At the time, she said she was “evolving away from tennis” to focus on her family.

Venus was already granted a Wild Card into this year’s singles draw amid much criticism because of her poor singles results in recent years.

Serena made her return to the singles court at Wimbledon after nearly four years off, losing in the first round to Australia’s Maya Joint 6-3, 6-7(6), 6-3 in the first round.

Women's Doubles Wild Cards

Serena Williams and Venus Williams
Robin Montgomery and Ashlyn Krueger
Reese Brantmeier and Savannah Broadus
Claire Liu and Julieta Pareja
DJ Bennett and Ava Esposito (American Collegiate Player Wild Card Playoffs)
Bella Payne and Sara Shumate (USTA Billie Jean King Girls’ 18s National Championships)
To be announced

Men's Doubles Wild Cards

Jackson Withrow and Nate Lammons
Mackenzie McDonald and Martin Damm
Mac Kiger and Aleks Kovacevic
Brandon Carpico and Nikita Filin (American Collegiate Player Wild Card Playoffs)
Noah Johnston and Yannik Alvarez (USTA Boys’ 18s National Championship)
To be announced
To be announced

This article was originally published on Forbes.com