{"id":777,"date":"2026-09-05T04:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T04:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/05\/williams-sisters-us-open-return-ends-in-third-set-tie-break-loss\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T04:26:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T04:26:00","slug":"williams-sisters-us-open-return-ends-in-third-set-tie-break-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/05\/williams-sisters-us-open-return-ends-in-third-set-tie-break-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams Sisters&#8217; US Open Return Ends in Third-Set Tie-break Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The long-awaited reunion of Serena and Venus Williams on the US Open court ended in disappointment as the American duo exited the women&#8217;s doubles competition in the first round. They fell to the pairing of Maya Joint and Chan Hao-ching with a final score of 6-3, 6-7 (6), 7-6 (7) in a match that spanned three hours.<\/p>\n<p>Competing in a thunderous Arthur Ashe Stadium, the sisters displayed remarkable resilience, fighting through multiple deficits throughout the contest. Despite their efforts, the victory eluded them in a dramatic conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>The match appeared to be drifting toward a Williams sisters&#8217; victory late in the third set. Coming back from a 1-4 deficit, they established a commanding 5-0 lead in the deciding tie-break. However, they were ultimately unable to close it out, losing six consecutive points to surrender the set and the match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serena and Venus Williams crashed out of the US Open women&#8217;s doubles after losing to Joint and Chan in three sets, squandering a 5-0 third-set tiebreak lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[922,173,745,894,10],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-grand-slam","tag-tennis","tag-us-open","tag-williams-sisters","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}