Thursday night may have been the final match for Serena and Venus as a doubles team. Czech duo Nosková, 17, and Hradecká, 37, advanced to the second round, winning 7-6(5), 6-4. The Williams sisters entered the US Open as doubles wild cards. They last played doubles together at the 2018 French Open when they reached the round of 16. On Wednesday, Serena defeated Anett Kontaveit 7-6(4), 2-6, 6-2 in singles play. It was Williams’ fourth match since announcing to Vogue magazine that she would “evolve away from tennis” after the US Open. “I’ve never liked the word retirement. It doesn’t feel like a modern word to me. I was thinking of it as a transition, but I want to be sensitive about how I use that word, which means something very specific and important to a community of people,” Williams said. , 40, in the Vogue article published earlier this month. “Maybe the best word to describe what I’m doing is evolution. I’m here to tell you that I’m evolving away from tennis, towards other things that are important to me,” he said. 42-year-old Venus Williams has not announced her future tennis plans.
