Serena and Karaz meet in doubles at the Flushing Meadows Tennis Open

American Serena Williams, a 23-time Grand Slam singles champion, and Spanish world No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz, a seven-time Grand Slam title winner, will partner together in the mixed doubles competition at the US Open tennis championship. The United States Tennis Association announced the mixed doubles pairings, headlined by the return of 44-year-old Williams to Flushing Meadows for the first time since 2022. Williams, a six-time winner of the women’s singles title at one of the four Grand Slam tournaments, previously won the mixed doubles title in 1998 alongside Max Mirnyi. However, the American will not compete in the singles draw this year. Williams and Alcaraz received one of the last three wild cards into the main mixed doubles draw, while the other two wild cards went to Czech pair Karolina Muchova and Jakub Mensik, and American pair Emma Navarro and Tommy Paul. Williams last played women’s doubles alongside her sister Venus at the Cincinnati tournament in 2022, but they were eliminated in the first round. Mixed doubles competition begins on Tuesday and concludes on Wednesday at the National Tennis Center, while the main US Open tournament starts on August 30.