By Richard Pagliaro | @TennisNow | Monday, July 21, 2025
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Venus Williams will rejoice the twenty fifth anniversary of her maiden US Open crown returning to play Flushing Meadows.
Former world No. 1 Venus will associate good buddy Reilly Opelka in subsequent month’s US Open Combined Doubles occasion, the USTA introduced immediately.
The 45-year-old Venus is ready to play her first professional match in 16 months in Washington, DC this week.
1 / 4 century in the past, Venus Williams defeated Lindsay Davenport 6-4, 7-5 to seize her first US Open singles crown. Venus efficiently defended the US Open in 2001 when she defeated youthful sister and 1999 champion Serena Williams 6-2, 6-4 in one of many most-widely considered US Open girls’s finals.
Proving the couple that performs collectively, stays collectively, Australian No. 1 Alex de Minaur will associate fiancee Katie Boulter on the US Open.
“Yeah, we’re undoubtedly going to be eager to attempt to play if they permit us to and if they need us to,” de Minaur informed the media at Queen’s Membership final month. “If that is an possibility, then we’ll undoubtedly be up for it.”
One in every of tennis’ prime glamor {couples} introduced their engagement on December twenty third on social media.
Earlier this season, de Minaur shared incomes “massive bucks” to pay for the marriage is considered one of his driving forces on courtroom lately.
“Realistically, what’s driving me for the time being is making an attempt to earn some massive bucks for this wedding ceremony finances,” De Minaur informed Tennis Channel in April. “That is the one factor on my thoughts—making an attempt to win as many matches as I can, as a result of I’ve began to take a look at venues and it is costly. I can let you know that.”
Paula Badosa and Stefanos Tsitsipas, who’ve reportedly endeded their relationship, are now not on the US Open Combined Doubles entry listing.
Given the US Open Combined Doubles champions will earn $1 Million for capturing the 2025 US Open Combined Doubles crown, that might be much more motivation for de Minaur and Boulter to affix forces in Flushing Meadows and canopy their wedding ceremony finances.
In complete, 25 groups have now entered the occasion.
The competitors will happen throughout US Open Fan Week on Tuesday, August 19, and Wednesday, August 20, on the USTA Billie Jean King Nationwide Tennis Middle, with $1 Million in prize cash being awarded to the profitable workforce.
Although Fan Week stays free, followers might want to purchase tickets to look at the US Open Combined Doubles.
The entry window will shut on July twenty eighth at 12:00 ET, at which period the highest eight groups with the very best mixed singles rating on the time will formally be within the discipline/draw by way of direct acceptance.
The remaining eight groups shall be decided by way of wild card and introduced on a date to observe.
The entry listing for the 2025 US Open Combined Doubles Championship contains the next groups:
Emma Navarro and Jannik Sinner
Amanda Anisimova and Holger Rune
Jessica Pegula and Tommy Paul
Jasmine Paolini and Lorenzo Musetti
Elena Rybakina and Taylor Fritz
Mirra Andreeva and Daniil Medvedev
Madison Keys and Frances Tiafoe
Aryna Sabalenka and Grigor Dimitrov
Iga Swiatek and Casper Ruud
Karolina Muchova and Andrey Rublev
Emma Raducanu and Carlos Alcaraz
Belinda Bencic and Alexander Zverev
Olga Danilovic and Novak Djokovic
Taylor Townsend and Ben Shelton
Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori
Naomi Osaka and Nick Kyrgios
Katie Boulter and Alex de Minaur
Donna Vekic and Hubert Hurkacz
Gaby Dabrowski and Felix Auger-Aliassime
Demi Schuurs and Tallon Griekspoor
Katerina Siniakova and Marcelo Arevalo
Desirae Krawczyk and Evan King
Su-Wei Hsieh and Jan Zielinski
Iva Jovic and Jenson Brooksby
Venus Williams and Reilly Opelka
“In our preliminary discussions about reimagining and elevating the US Open Combined Doubles Championship, we needed to discover a technique to showcase the world’s finest women and men competing with and in opposition to each other, and we have been assured that we’d be capable to get the highest gamers within the sport enthusiastic about this distinctive alternative,” mentioned Lew Sherr, CEO and Govt Director, USTA. “Seeing the groups which have already put their names on the entry listing makes us all extremely excited.
“It reveals that the gamers are behind what we are attempting to do, and we all know that the followers will find it irresistible.”
