Venus Williams handed Miami Open doubles wild card with partner now confirmed
Venus Williams will return to the Miami Open, taking part in both singles and doubles matches in Florida. The American has yet to win a match this year, having gone out in the first round at both the Australian Open and Indian Wells.
Photo by Fiona Goodall/Getty Images Venus Williams will return to the Miami Open, taking part in both singles and doubles matches in Florida. The American has yet to win a match this year, having gone out in the first round at both the Australian Open and Indian Wells. There have been questions around whether Williams should continue receiving wild cards given her recent results.
However, tournaments haven’t shied away from offering her direct entry. Venus Williams to team up with Leylah Fernandez in doubles once more Photo by Robert Prange/Getty Images Williams is set for a match against Britain’s Fran Jones in the singles, a player she practiced with ahead of Indian Wells. The American has also received a wild card for the Miami Open doubles and she will yet again pair with Leylah Fernandez.
Williams and Fernandez played doubles at the US Open in 2025, where they enjoyed an impressive run to the quarter-finals. The North American pair defeated Ekaterina Alexandrova and Zhang Shuai, Ulrikke Eikeri and Eri Hozumi and Ellen Perez and Lyudmyla Kichenok at the New York Grand Slam. Their run was ended by Kateřina Siniaková and Taylor Townsend, who went on to reach the final at Flushing Meadows.
Williams will be hoping for a similar run in Miami to kickstart her faltering return to tennis. Venus Williams’ high-profile doubles partners in 2026 The 43-year-old was beaten by Ajla Tomljanovic at Indian Wells earlier this month as her singles struggles continued. While she has played just six matches so far this season due to her lack of ranking, fans are getting frustrated by the fact that five of those have come from wild cards.