By Richard Pagliaro | Tuesday, August 26, 2025Photo 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 can 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 now.
The total wild card entries are under:
US Open Girls’s Doubles Wild Playing cards
Venus Williams and Leylah FernandezHailey Baptiste and Whitney OsuigweReese Brantmeier and Alanis HamiltonCarmen Corley and Ivana CorleyKristina Penickova and Thea FrodinClervie Ngounoue and Iva JovicJulieta 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 girls’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.
