Serena and Venus Williams knocked out of doubles’ play by Czech duo at US Open
The Williams sisters’ tennis careers are still on pause due to a pair of bad breaks that ended their match against the Czechs on Saturday.
Serena Williams had to leave the US Open main draw Saturday with injured right wrist and was subsequently forced to withdraw from her match against the Czech Republic’s Barbora Zahlavova Platero in the second round.
Serena Williams’ wrist injury puts her out of the 2014 US Open
Williams’ wrist injury caused her to pull out of the second round of the 2014 US Open, which had been her first-round match all season, but she is now set to return to the tournament.
Williams and Venus Williams were in the finals of the US Open in 2007 and Serena Williams and Venus Williams came to the final in 2014, but they had to come back to the US Open main draw at the following year due to various injuries.
Serena Williams’ injuries have put her out of the tournament since last October. At the time of the injury, she was preparing for the women’s doubles final with her sister Venus Williams.
Serena Williams’ injury puts her out of a number of major tournaments, but she’s still playing with the US Open women’s singles title at the top of the leaderboard heading into the second day of the tournament.
Serena Williams’ injury put her out of the 2014 US Open
The US Open women’s singles finals are back in action on Saturday. The women’s singles final is set to begin at 1:30 p.m. ET.
The third-seeded Williams sisters are both in the quarterfinals – Venus Williams against Germany’s Anna-Lena Vondrousof and Serena Williams against Britain’s Johanna Konta.