{"id":76925,"date":"2026-08-03T12:55:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/serena-and-venus-williams-set-to-play-doubles-in-cincinnati-as-us-open-nears\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T12:55:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:55:49","slug":"serena-and-venus-williams-set-to-play-doubles-in-cincinnati-as-us-open-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/serena-and-venus-williams-set-to-play-doubles-in-cincinnati-as-us-open-nears\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena and Venus Williams set to play doubles in Cincinnati as US Open nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Pair last played doubles at the 2022 US Open<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Serena returned to action at Wimbledon before injury<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>US Open begins 31 August in New York<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Serena Williams and Venus Williams are \u2060set to make their Cincinnati Open doubles debut this \u2060month after being \u2060awarded \u200ba wild card on Monday, marking their return \u2060to doubles action for the first time since 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The Williams sisters \u2060have won 14 major doubles \u200btitles, including six \u200cat Wimbledon, \u200cplus three Olympic gold medals.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/aug\/03\/serena-williams-venus-williams-cincinnati-open-doubles\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pair last played doubles at the 2022 US Open Serena returned to action at Wimbledon before injury US Open begins 31 August in New York Serena Williams and Venus Williams are \u2060set to make their Cincinnati Open doubles debut this \u2060month after being \u2060awarded \u200ba wild card on Monday, marking their return \u2060to doubles action &#8230; <a title=\"Serena and Venus Williams set to play doubles in Cincinnati as US Open nears\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/serena-and-venus-williams-set-to-play-doubles-in-cincinnati-as-us-open-nears\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Serena and Venus Williams set to play doubles in Cincinnati as US Open nears\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}