Overview
- Venus and Serena Williams were eliminated from the US Open women's doubles after losing 6-3, 6-7(6), 7-6(7) to Hao-Ching Chan and Maya Joint.
- The match at Arthur Ashe lasted more than three hours and was decided by a match super tiebreak in which the Williamses squandered a 5-0 lead before Chan and Joint won ten of the final twelve points.
- The loss continues a recent pattern for the sisters after they also fell in the first round at the Cincinnati Open and had a planned Wimbledon reunion delayed by Serena’s injury.
- Chan and Joint are a new pairing playing their fourth event together and arrive in New York on the back of a recent WTA 250 final in Memphis, marking them as an emerging doubles team.
- At 44 and 46 years old, Serena and Venus face the reality of long layoffs and injuries affecting their comeback even as their legacy and past US Open titles frame the significance of their joint return.