Serena Williams confirms tennis return at Queen's Club next week

The GOAT isn’t finished. Serena Williams, who amassed 23 major championships and 73 career singles titles before retiring in 2022, is returning to competitive tennis at 44. Williams revealed Monday that she has accepted a wild-card invitation to play in the HSBC Championships in London starting next week. “Queen’s Club feels like the perfect place …

Serena Williams is returning to professional tennis at age 44 after nearly four years away from the sport. The 23-time Grand Slam singles champion has accepted a wild card invitation to play doubles at the upcoming Queen’s Club grass-court tournament, the WTA Tour announced Monday. Williams has not competed since bidding farewell at the 2022 U.S. Open.

Calls the event ‘perfect place’ for her return to court Williams will play doubles with Victoria Mboko Serena Williams has announced her sensational return to professional tennis at 44 years old next week at the Queen’s Club in London. Williams will return to competition with a wildcard in the women’s doubles draw at Queen’s, a WTA 500 event in its second edition. She has not competed in the last four years since retiring from tennis at the US Open in 2022. Williams is a 23-time grand slam singles champion, the women’s open-era record, and a 14-time doubles champion. She is the only player to win the career golden slam in singles and doubles. In a statement, Williams said: “Queen’s Club feels like the perfect place to begin this next chapter. Grass has given me some of the most meaningful moments of my career, and I’m excited to be back competing on one of the sport’s most iconic stages.” Williams has been planning to compete in doubles alongside Victoria Mboko, the Canadian player ranked No 9 in singles. Mboko commented on Williams’ potential return last week at the French Open: “I’m very happy. Me and Serena have stayed in touch, which is really, really nice, because I really look up to her. I mean, the fact that she even knows me is very exciting. “I think for me I want to kind of let the moment for her. I feel like if she’s ready to come back on her own terms, then I feel like it’s up to her to announce that, but other than that, I can’t really -- I don’t really have much to say.” Continue reading...

Williams will begin her ‘next chapter’ by playing doubles at Queen’s Club, ahead of possibly competing in singles at Wimbledon

Serena Williams will make a sensational return to professional tennis at the age of 44 in next week's HSBC Championship at Queen's Club.