By Richard Pagliaro | Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Photograph credit score: US Open
NEW YORK—Venus Williams lit up Arthur Ashe Stadium in her opening-round singles loss to Karolina Muchova final night time.
The 2-time US Open champion might be doubling up in Flushing Meadows.
The 45-year-old Williams has accepted a wild card into US Open doubles partnering 2021 singles finalist Leylah Fernandez, the match introduced right this moment.
The complete wild card entries are beneath:
US Open Ladies’s Doubles Wild Playing cards
Venus Williams and Leylah Fernandez
Hailey Baptiste and Whitney Osuigwe
Reese Brantmeier and Alanis Hamilton
Carmen Corley and Ivana Corley
Kristina Penickova and Thea Frodin
Clervie Ngounoue and Iva Jovic
Julieta Pareja and Akasha Urhobo
Venus Williams and Serena Williams gained the 1999 and 2009 US Open doubles championships. Fernandez and Williams are within the high quarter of the draw headed by high seeds Taylor Townsend and Katerina Siniakova.
Lyudmyla Kichenok and Jelena Ostapenko gained the 2024 US Open ladies’s doubles championship. Williams and Fernandez will play sixth seeds Kichenkok and Ellen Perez of their opener. The 29-year-old Perez reached a career-high doubles rating of No. 7.
Former No. 1 Venus Williams partnered Hailey Baptiste in Washington, DC doubles. The pair gained their first-round match earlier than bowing to Townsend and Shuai Zhang, 4-6, 6-3, 6-10 within the quarterfinals.
