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Serena Williams volition play astatine Wimbledon for the archetypal clip since 2022 aft the American fable was fixed a wildcard to play the doubles lawsuit with her sister Venus connected Tuesday (June 16, 2026).
Williams made a sensational instrumentality to tennis past week erstwhile she won her first-round doubles lucifer astatine Queen’s Club with spouse Victoria Mboko.
The 44-year-old had not played nonrecreational tennis for 4 years aft saying she was “evolving away” from the athletics pursuing the 2022 U.S. Open.
But the 23-time Grand Slam singles champion was keen to play successful beforehand of her 2 young daughters and made the daze announcement of her instrumentality conscionable anterior to the Wimbledon warm-up lawsuit astatine Queen’s.
Williams was incapable to play much than 1 lucifer astatine Queen’s aft Mboko pulled retired with an injury, but she is owed to proceed her singular comeback successful the Berlin Open doubles alongside Karolina Muchova this week.
The Williams sisters are six-time doubles champions astatine Wimbledon, winning their past rubric connected their astir caller quality unneurotic a decennary ago.
Following speculation that Serena would beryllium tempted to play successful the singles astatine Wimbledon, which starts connected June 29, the American was absent from the database of wildcard entries into that portion of the tournament.
After truthful agelong away, she had nary ranking to unafraid automatic introduction into tournaments, leaving her to trust connected wildcards.
There is inactive 1 singles wildcard spot for Wimbledon to beryllium announced.
