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Venus Williams Gets Wild Card Entry To Continue Comeback At US Open

The Venus Williams comeback will keep on rolling.

On Tuesday morning, the USTA announced that it has granted Williams a wild-card entry to the mixed doubles tournament at next month’s US Open, where she will compete with fellow American Reilly Opelka.

After taking more than a year off, Williams returned to action last week at the D.C. Open, where she took down fellow American Peyton Stearns 6-3, 6-4 before falling to the 5th-ranked Magdalena Fręch from Poland.

Before the US Open, Williams will compete in the Cincinnati Open, which gave her a wild card entry last week.

It is still possible that the WTA will give Williams a wild card entry to compete in the singles portion of the US Open if she asks. Those selections will be announced the week of August 11th.

As far as mixed doubles goes, the eight duos with direct entry are No. 11 Emma Navarro and No. 1 Jannik Sinner; No. 10 Paula Badosa and No. 5 Jack Draper; No. 3 Iga Swiatek and No. 13 Casper Ruud; No. 12 Elena Rybakina and No. 4 Taylor Fritz; No. 7 Amanda Anisimova and No. 9 Holger Rune; Belinda Bencic and No. 3 Alexander Zverev; No. 4 Jessica Pegula and No. 15 Tommy Paul; No. 5 Mirra Andreeva and No. 14 Daniil Medvedev.

Williams’ fellow wild card competitors include Emma Raducanu and No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz; No. 8 Madison Keys and Frances Tiafoe; Olga Danilovic and No. 6 Novak Djokovic; Taylor Townsend and No. 7 Ben Shelton; and the tournament’s reigning champions, Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori.

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