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Williams sisters move on at U.S. Open

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Venus, left, and Serena Williams high fived after beating Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears in a doubles match during the second round of the 2013 U.S. Open tennis tournament today in New York.

NEW YORK » After a late night playing singles at the U.S. Open, Serena Williams returned this afternoon and teamed with sister Venus for a 6-4, 6-4 doubles victory over Americans Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears.

Serena Williams didn’t wrap up her singles win over Yaroslava Shvedova the night before until 1:05 a.m. On Sunday afternoon, she’ll play her fourth-round singles match against American Sloane Stephens in a rematch of Stephens’ win in the Australian Open quarterfinals.

Meanwhile, in doubles, the Williams sisters are in search of their 14th Grand Slam tournament title. Their next match is against 11th-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Lucie Safarova.

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