Serena and Venus Williams, champions of the US Open 2009, one of her 14 doubles Grand Slams. Photo: AP Photo / Darron Cummings.
The sisters serene Y venus williams received this Saturday a letter of invitation from US Open it is up to them to participate together in the doubles tournament, which will mark their return to the field as a team for the first time since 2018.
It was him Roland Garros In 2018 the last time that Serena and Venus competed together and in that case they would have stopped in the third round, when they crashed against the Spanish María José Martínez Sánchez and the Slovenian Andreja Klepac.
Serena and Venus have won fourteen doubles “majors” together, including the 1999 and 2009 US Open, and three gold medals at the Sydney 2000, Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Olympic Games.
It will most likely be Serena’s last participation New Yorkafter the veteran player, 40, recently announced she was ready to quit tennis by suggesting it would be after the US Open.
Serena Williams became a professional tennis player at the age of 14. Won 23 Grand Slam singles tournaments.
In 2002 he won his first Roland Garros by beating his sister Venus, and that same year he won his first Wimbledon.
Serena Williams has won the Australian Open seven times, seven more at Wimbledon, six US Open and three Roland Garros.
Venus, 42, has won seven singles majors, with five Wimbledon and two US Open.
The ‘great’ New Yorker will be played from 29 August to 11 September.
Source: EFE
Source: Clarin
