Serena to play US Open mixed doubles with Alcaraz - but not singles!

Serena Williams to team up with Carlos Alcaraz for US Open mixed doubles tournament next week; watch the ATP and WTA Tours and US Open from August 30 live on Sky Sports Tennis and Sky Sports+, streaming service NOW and the Sky Sports app

The dream team of Serena Williams and Carlos Alcaraz have signed up to the US Open mixed doubles championship.

Williams will ‌make a competitive return to the ‌US Open alongside defending ​men's champion Alcaraz after ‌the pair were handed a ​wild card entry.

It will be ​Williams' first ⁠competitive match ⁠at Flushing Meadows since 2022.

The American 23-time Grand Slam singles champion and ‌six-time US Open winner - who returned to tennis this summer - won the mixed doubles title in 1998 with ⁠Max Mirnyi.

Williams, who played singles at Wimbledon and doubles with older sister Venus at the Cincinnati Open , has yet to decide whether she will play singles in New York, though the USTA is still holding one women's wild card.

Alcaraz announced this week he would return to defend his singles title after being sidelined since April with a right wrist injury.

World No 1 Aryna Sabalenka ​will partner four-time US Open winner Novak Djokovic and Jessica ⁠Pegula will team up with fellow ⁠American Taylor Fritz.

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