{"id":1995,"date":"2026-07-30T11:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T11:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=1995"},"modified":"2026-07-30T11:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T11:39:08","slug":"want-to-play-doubles-with-venus-williams-the-correct-answer-is-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=1995","title":{"rendered":"Want to Play Doubles With Venus Williams? The Correct Answer Is Yes."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The most impressive athletic feat anyone has pulled off so far at the Mubadala D.C. Open didn\u2019t occur on a tennis court, but on the leafy walkways and concourses connecting the tournament\u2019s corporate offices to the players\u2019 area. It was performed not by a tennis player but by the tournament\u2019s longtime chair, Mark Ein, who covered those several hundred yards \u2014 in dress shoes and sport coat, his cell phone pressed to his ear \u2014 well, faster than anyone could have reasonably expected from a 61-year-old.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=1993\">Talk to Tom: What Is the Best Tasting Menu in D.C.?<\/a><\/p><p>Ein, at that instant, was on a desperate mission to salvage a sizable chunk of the tournament\u2019s star factor.<\/p>\n<p>It was 1:10 p.m. Saturday and Ein had just gotten a call from Andrea Preti, the husband of tennis legend Venus Williams, informing him that Williams\u2019 intended doubles partner, Alexandra Eala, had <span><u>scratched<\/u><\/span> at the eleventh hour. With the 2 p.m. deadline for doubles entries looming, they had 50 minutes and ticking to find Williams a replacement. Ein didn\u2019t wait to finish the call before rushing out his office door and down the walkways.<\/p><p>Upon bursting into the players\u2019 dining area, the first person he saw was Diana Shnaider, a 22-year-old Russian and the 18th-ranked women\u2019s tennis player in the world, having lunch with her support team.<\/p>\n<section>\n<div>\n<h2>\n<span>Trending<\/span>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DC: Dr. Anthony Fauci testifying before the Senate Homeland\" class=\"wp-image-1957\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ba72971b09b7937db30c60e1faaa5e8f-768x512.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ba72971b09b7937db30c60e1faaa5e8f-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ba72971b09b7937db30c60e1faaa5e8f-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ba72971b09b7937db30c60e1faaa5e8f.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><h3>\n<span>\n                      Redacted Fauci Diary Entries Depict Him Personally Helping Katie Miller\n                    <\/span>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rooster and Owl\" class=\"wp-image-1988\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/30f250648f6766d50a37c895057f0de9-768x512.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/30f250648f6766d50a37c895057f0de9-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/30f250648f6766d50a37c895057f0de9-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/30f250648f6766d50a37c895057f0de9.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><h3>\n<span>\n                      Talk to Tom: What Is the Best Tasting Menu in D.C.?\n                    <\/span>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"AP25169566111129\" class=\"wp-image-1992\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/5b7f51473aaa32ec47e6a70a61245593-768x512.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/5b7f51473aaa32ec47e6a70a61245593-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/5b7f51473aaa32ec47e6a70a61245593-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/5b7f51473aaa32ec47e6a70a61245593.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><h3>\n<span>\n                      Centrist Democrats Are Staring Down Disaster in a Michigan Swing District\n                    <\/span>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Paige.Cognetti.1\" class=\"wp-image-1984\" height=\"694\" src=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/8968553b251a43feb25e8ee3fc5d372c-768x694.jpeg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/8968553b251a43feb25e8ee3fc5d372c-768x694.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/8968553b251a43feb25e8ee3fc5d372c-300x271.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/8968553b251a43feb25e8ee3fc5d372c.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><h3>\n<span>\n                      Paige Cognetti Refuses Corporate PAC Money. But Some Is Arriving Indirectly.\n                    <\/span>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>\u201cDiana,\u201d Ein said, catching his breath, \u201chow would you like to play doubles this week with Venus Williams?\u201d<\/p><p>For the roughly 3,000 fans who crammed into the outlying John Harris Court at the Rock Creek Park Tennis Center on Monday for an up-close glimpse of tennis royalty \u2014 the 46-year-old Williams owns seven Grand Slam singles titles and another 14 in doubles \u2014 then crammed in again Wednesday evening for their quarterfinal match, they have Ein\u2019s resourcefulness and Shnaider\u2019s intrepidness to thank for the experience.<\/p><p>And Williams, on a miserable run of bad luck with her choice of doubles partners of late, may have just accidentally hit upon a solution to her problem.<\/p><p>Despite having never played together before, Williams and Shnaider demonstrated an uncanny degree of chemistry in winning Monday\u2019s first-round match, 6-3, 6-4, over American Quinn Gleason and Norway\u2019s Ulrikke Eikeri, before falling in Wednesday night\u2019s quarterfinals to Chinese duo Qianhui Tang and Yifan Xu, 6-4, 6-2.<\/p><div>\n<\/div>\n<p>If one thing has defined the first half of this year\u2019s D.C. Open, it is the slow bleed-off of A-list American stars, both male and female, from the tournament draw. Among those joining Williams in departing well short of the weekend are hometown legend and sixth seed Frances Tiafoe; fifth-seeded Learner Tien, the 16th-ranked men\u2019s player in the world; and Madison Keys, the 2025 Australian Open champ and sixth seed in the women\u2019s draw. All lost their first-round matches.<\/p><p>For Williams, as with many American players, the D.C. stop on the North American hard-court circuit holds a special place in her heart. It\u2019s no coincidence she chose this tournament as the site of her own return to the game last summer following a 16-month absence. (Her singles victory here a year ago over Peyton Stearns at age 45 made her the second-oldest player in history to win a singles match, but she is 0-12 since in singles, including a loss Tuesday night to Austria\u2019s Anastasia Potapova. Williams entered Wednesday ranked 664th in the world in singles, 124th in doubles.)<\/p><p>\u201cYou can just feel it from the fans,\u201d Williams said. \u201cThey\u2019re ride or die.\u201d<\/p><p>To the extent that Williams\u2019 radiance permitted anyone to pay attention to Shnaider, they would have noticed, above all else, the incredulous smile that seemed to be plastered across the young Russian\u2019s face between points and during changeovers. It was the same smile that Ein encountered on Saturday \u2014 \u201cAbsolutely giddy,\u201d he described her \u2014 when he presented the offer of being Williams\u2019 partner.<\/p><p>\u201cIt was definitely the right choice,\u201d Shnaider said of her decision to accept. \u201cI feel like it was definitely a great partnership.\u201d<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=1989\">Democrats Want to Avoid an Election Season Shutdown<\/a><\/p><p>Paradoxically, playing doubles these days with Williams \u2014 among the most decorated players of her generation and, along with sister Serena, half of the second-most-prolific doubles team in history \u2014 is both an intimidating notion for a young player and an egalitarian rite of passage, open to just about any current WTA player with a racket and a halfway decent world ranking.<\/p>\n<p>In the four-plus years since Serena famously stepped away from the sport \u2014 a decision she would eventually <span><u>reverse<\/u><\/span>, also famously, this summer \u2014 Venus has found it almost impossible to find a full-time doubles partner. Her last seven tournaments have seen her paired with seven different partners, and she only found herself scrambling at the last minute to find a new partner this week because Eala, with whom Williams partnered last month at a tournament in Germany, pulled out in order to focus on her singles matches.<\/p><p>(Williams\u2019s eleventh-hour switch from Eala to Shnaider was described by tournament officials as a \u201crepairing,\u201d which is the sort of beautiful euphemism that would seem to have enormous potential for divorce lawyers.)<\/p><div>\n<\/div><p>Eala\u2019s late scratch extended a brutal streak of rotten luck for Williams in recent doubles competition. In May, American up-and-comer Hailey Baptiste scratched out of their planned French Open pairing with a knee injury. Then, at last month\u2019s Wimbledon, where Serena launched her comeback and where the Williams sisters secured a wild-card entry in doubles, Serena injured her knee during her first-round singles loss to Maya Joint and was forced to withdraw from doubles. Then came Eala\u2019s last-minute decision to withdraw in D.C.<\/p><p>\u201cIt\u2019s just unlucky. Time and unforeseen circumstances befall us all,\u201d Williams said. \u201cI would like to hopefully get lucky.\u201d<\/p><p>It\u2019s not as if Williams is an undesirable or unsavory doubles partner. Shnaider\u2019s eagerness to pair with her this week speaks to Williams\u2019 magnetic pull on younger players. So do the words offered this week by Leylah Fernandez, who has played doubles with Williams twice, including at the 2025 U.S. Open.<\/p><p>\u201cIt\u2019s tough [playing with Williams], because I knew how competitive she was and how much she loves winning and hates losing. I was stressed, I was nervous,\u201d Fernandez said. \u201cWhat I didn\u2019t know was [her ability] to calm me down. \u2026 Venus definitely has a welcoming aura where she always wants to support and help as much as possible. It motivates me. It encourages me, and it brings me back to why I play tennis.\u201d<\/p><p>On Wednesday evening, at the instant their loss was sealed, Williams and Shnaider met on their side of the net and shared a good, long hug. The adoring crowd, by this point well thinned out, stood and cheered and snapped photos, just in case it might be the last time they see Williams in these parts.<\/p><p>But she doesn\u2019t sound like someone who is ready to bow out. She spoke of her hopes for a delayed reunion with Serena in U.S. Open doubles later this summer, provided Serena is healthy. And despite the chaos of this week \u2014 a \u201crepairing,\u201d an unfamiliar partner, a riveting win, a gutting loss \u2014 she sounded like someone who wouldn\u2019t want it any other way.<\/p><p>\u201cIn tennis, you\u2019re learning something about yourself every day. It just doesn\u2019t end,\u201d Williams said. \u201cIt\u2019s such a beautiful and sometimes painful discovery, and I look forward to every day of it.\u201d<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=1985\">Redacted Fauci Diary Entries Depict Him Personally Helping Katie Miller<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a last-minute pairing, the 46-year-old tennis legend played alongside 22-year-old Diana Shnaider at this week\u2019s D.C. 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