Venus Williams has obtained a wild card to play within the girls’s singles on the 2026 US Open on the age of 46.
The seven-time grand slam champion featured in this year’s Australian Open as a wild card, shedding to Olga Danilović in three units.
That look in Melbourne adopted her making historical past on the 2025 US Open, when she grew to become the oldest girl to compete in the primary draw of the singles in New York for the reason that 47-year-old Renee Richards in 1981.
The then 45-year-old produced an admirable efficiency within the first spherical in opposition to eleventh seed Karolina Muchova, however was overwhelmed in three units.
Now she’s going to get the possibility to say her first win at Flushing Meadows in 2019 after receiving a discretionary wild card in to the primary draw.
Amongst these becoming a member of the two-time US Open champion within the girls’s singles as a wild card is Sloane Stephens, who received the title in 2017.
However it stays to be seen if sister Serena Williams may also compete within the singles in New York following her return to the grand slam area at Wimbledon.
In announcing the wild cards, the US Tennis Affiliation (USTA) left one spot as ‘to be introduced’, which can possible enhance discuss round Serena that includes at Flushing Meadows for the primary time since she seemingly bid farewell to the game in 2022.
The 23-time main champion made her comeback at Queen’s Membership in June within the doubles earlier than that includes on the Berlin Tennis Open in the identical occasion after which receiving a wild card into the singles and the doubles alongside Venus at Wimbledon.
Serena misplaced in three units to Maya Joint on her singles return on the All England Membership, before injury forced her to withdraw from the doubles.
Venus and Serena performed doubles collectively for the primary time in 4 years in Cincinnati on Monday, shedding to Marta Kostyuk and Peyton Stearns within the first spherical of the doubles.
“Successful is clearly nice,” mentioned Serena after the match. “However I feel on this place, [we’re] simply having enjoyable. I didn’t come out right here to win this event. Clearly, I needed to do one of the best I might do, however I feel having enjoyable and in addition simply seeing how we’re and the way we really feel on the market.
“Being on the market with the followers, too, is simply actually good, simply to offer them one other alternative to see us play, which is admittedly cool.”
Followers will get to see them play once more on the key circuit in New York. The query that’s unanswered is whether or not Serena’s participation shall be within the singles or doubles.
