Back on the 45 -year -old circuit, the eldest of the Williams sisters qualified for the quarter -finals in doubles.
Venus Williams qualified on Monday with his young Canadian partner Leylah Fernandez for the quarter -finals of the US Open double tournament. The 45-year-old American, ex-numéro 1 in the world, and her 22-year-old youngest beaten the Russian-Chinese pair Ekaterina Alexandrova-Zhang Shuai (6-3, 6-4).
Returning to the WTA circuit at the end of July at the Washington tournament after having moved more than a year from professional tennis, the elder of the Williams sisters had been eliminated in the first round of the US Open.
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The American finds a quarter -final of Grand Slam for the first time since 2017 in Simple (Wimbledon) and 2016 in double.
But she had obtained an invitation from the organizers to participate in the double tournament. That she had honored from the start, eliminating in the first round the heads of series n ° 6 Lyudmyla Kichenok and Ellen Perez.
