Their father, Richard, later accused followers of racial abuse. Serena returned to the match in 2015, whereas Venus performed the next yr.
Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova, 34, has additionally been handed a wildcard after her announcement earlier this month that she would return to tennis following the start of her first baby in July.
On the lads’s aspect, Brazil’s 18-year-old rising star Joao Fonseca, who gained his first ATP Tour title on the Argentina Open on Sunday, was granted a wildcard together with American 19-year-old Learner Tien, who reached the fourth spherical of January’s Australian Open.
