NEW YORK — Serena Williams is getting again on the court docket towards Maya Joint — this time with sister Venus by her facet.
The Williams sisters have been drawn Tuesday to face the team of Hao-Ching Chan and Joint, who beat Serena at Wimbledon this summer, of their opening girls’s doubles match on the US Open.
Serena Williams, 44, returned this 12 months after 4 years out of motion and misplaced to Joint, a 20-year-old from Australia, 6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-3. She injured her knee within the match and needed to pull out of her deliberate doubles match on the All England Club with Venus, 46.
But they’re set to compete on the US Open, the place the Williams sisters gained the title in 1999 and 2009 and are 27-7 of their 9 appearances. They final performed in 2022, dropping within the first spherical in what was anticipated to be Serena’s ultimate match in Flushing Meadows.
Joint and Chan are the No. 14-seeded team.
The first spherical of the ladies’s doubles event begins Thursday.