After a four-year absence, Serena and Venus Williams will make their return as a doubles team at the US Open. The sisters, who have won 14 major doubles titles together (and a combined 30 singles titles), received a wild card for entry and will be playing in just their second tournament as a duo since Serena returned to the sport earlier this summer. Playing on the recent social media trend, Venus called their renewed partnership, "kinda chic" in an Instagram post on Thursday.

The Williams sisters will take on the No. 14-seeded pair of Chan Hao-ching and Maya Joint in the first round, on Friday at 7 p.m. ET. Chan and Joint have been playing together throughout the summer hard-court season, most notably reaching the Memphis Open final, as well as the quarterfinals in Cincinnati. Joint is a very familiar opponent for Serena, having handed her a three-set loss in the lone singles match of her comeback so far at Wimbledon in June.

They would next face the winners of a match between unseeded duos, but it would get considerably harder from there. The No. 4-seeded pair of Jelena Ostapenko and Hsieh Su-wei would likely await in the third round. Taylor Townsend and Katerina Siniakova, the tournament's top-seeded team, are also in their half of the draw.

In their only recent match together, at the Cincinnati Open earlier this month, the sisters struggled at the start but came alive in the second set, forcing a match-deciding super tiebreak before falling short. "I thought it was fun, I thought it was special, I thought it was good," Serena told reporters. "We kicked off a little rust in the middle of the match. We were starting to feel it, and it was really fun."