Overview
- Tournament organizers announced Monday that Serena and Venus Williams will use a doubles wild card to play the Cincinnati Open, while Venus also received a singles wild card.
- Serena is entered only in doubles at Cincinnati and is not listed in the singles draw, a cautious step after she tweaked her right knee at Wimbledon and required medical treatment.
- Venus’s singles wild card arrives despite a prolonged winless run on the WTA Tour this year, giving her another chance to regain match rhythm on hard courts.
- The sisters have won 14 major doubles titles and three Olympic gold medals and last teamed in doubles at the 2022 U.S. Open, making this their first Cincinnati pairing together.
- Cincinnati is the main hard‑court tuneup before the U.S. Open, so the doubles entry could influence Serena’s final decision on a U.S. Open singles comeback and teams have until Aug. 17 to seek mixed‑doubles wild cards for New York.