Richard Pagliaro | Sunday, June 21, 2026
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Serena Williams will serve up double obligation at Wimbledon.
The 23-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams has accepted a wild card into the Wimbledon girls’ singles draw, the event introduced right this moment.
The 44-year-old Serena already accepted a Wimbledon doubles wild card to accomplice 46-year-old sister Venus Williams.
Seven-time Wimbledon singles champion Serena Williams will play SW19 for the primary time since 2022 when she fell to Concord Tan within the opening spherical. That was Williams’ second straight Wimbledon opening-round exit following her retirement from her 2021 opener whereas deadlocked with Aliaksandra Sasnovich. Serena Williams final reached the Wimbledon singles last in 2019, bowing to Simona Halep.
Total, Serena owns a 98-14 profession singles document at Wimbledon.
Although she’s solely performed two grass-court doubles matches this month in preparation for singles and doubles at Wimbledon, Serena stated at Queen’s Membership competing once more feels regular to her.
“I imply, for me it is going to be. It’s not my accountability to know what it’s for everybody else, and I believe that’s the great thing about being an athlete and understanding the significance of honing in and, you recognize, concentrating,” Serena stated. “I really feel like after getting been there and also you perceive that, it doesn’t matter what’s occurring within the exterior world, so long as you recognize what you’re there for, and that basically helps and makes an enormous distinction.”
A former singles and doubles world No. 1, Serena launched her comeback at Queen’s Membership on June ninth.
The icon was impressed taking part in her first professional match in three years and 9 months on London’s garden.
Williams and 19-year-old accomplice Victoria Mboko defeated third seeds Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Erin Routliffe 7-6(2), 6-2 of their Queen’s Membership opening match. That dynamic partnership ended after Mboko suffered a knee damage in her singles match in opposition to former No. 1 Karolina Pliskova and was pressured to retire from Queen’s Membership and withdraw from Wimbledon.
Final Tuesday, doubles specialists Erin Routliffe and Giuliana Olmos scored a 6-4, 6-4 sweep of Muchova and Williams within the Berlin Tennis Open opener.
Wimbledon is about for June Twenty ninth-July twelfth.
