{"id":696,"date":"2026-06-01T16:12:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T16:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=696"},"modified":"2026-06-01T16:12:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T16:12:25","slug":"serena-to-make-much-awaited-return-at-queens-club-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=696","title":{"rendered":"Serena to make much-awaited return at Queen&#8217;s Club Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Summary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>June 1 (Reuters) &#8211; American great Serena \u200cWilliams on Monday announced her long-anticipated return to competitive tennis following a prolonged absence at this month&#8217;s Queen&#8217;s Club Championships, as the 44-year-old reignited memories of her dominance over two decades.<\/div>\n<div>Williams, who won the last of her 23 Grand Slam singles titles in 2017 and has not \u200bcompeted since the 2022 U.S. Open, received a wildcard entry into the doubles draw, the London-based club said \u200bin a statement.<\/div>\n<div>She posted a video on social media in which she was shown walking \u2060off a tennis court to her buzzing phone.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Guess everybody heard the news,&#8221; she said, while the post had the caption: &#8220;Good \u200bnews travels fast.&#8221;<\/div>\n<h2>A LONG-AWAITED RETURN<\/h2>\n<div>Speculation around Williams&#8217; return had intensified after she was cleared to officially enter tournaments after rejoining the tennis \u200banti-doping testing pool last year.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Queen&#8217;s Club feels like the perfect place to begin this next chapter,&#8221; former world number one Williams, now a mother of two daughters, said in the statement.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Grass has given me some of the most meaningful moments of my career, and I&#8217;m excited \u200bto be back competing on one of the sport&#8217;s most iconic stages.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>Multiple reports in the British media said that Williams will \u200bteam up with 19-year-old Canadian Victoria Mboko, after requesting a wildcard for the June 8 to 14 tournament.<\/div>\n<div>The attention will now shift to \u200cwhether Wimbledon, \u2060where Williams won seven singles titles, will also offer her a path to compete at the All England Club when the grasscourt Grand Slam gets underway on June 29.<\/div>\n<h2>&#8216;ONE OF THE GREATEST ATHLETES OF ALL TIME&#8217;<\/h2>\n<div>Williams has been on a mission to get fit in the last few months, often posting about her journey on social media, after last playing on the \u200bWTA Tour in September 2022.<\/div>\n<div>She had retired \u200bfrom professional tennis after a \u2060third-round loss at the U.S. Open, having said before the event that she was &#8220;evolving away from tennis&#8221; to prioritise other aspects of life only to announce a return nearly four years \u200blater.<\/div>\n<div>The door is now open for a potential revival of her successful doubles partnership with \u200bher sister Venus, \u2060who is 15 months older and still playing on the circuit.<\/div>\n<div>The pair have won 14 Grand Slam doubles titles together.<\/div>\n<div>Valerie Camillo, chair of the women&#8217;s tennis body WTA, said the tour was thrilled to welcome the younger Williams back.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Serena is one of the \u2060greatest athletes \u200bof all time, with a legacy that extends far beyond the court&#8230; \u200bI cannot wait to see her face a new generation of top players,&#8221; Camillo said.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We are thrilled to welcome her back to the WTA Tour \u200bat this hugely exciting moment for women&#8217;s tennis.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=694\">Exclusive: EU cloud rules to curb Big Tech\u2019s access to strategic tenders, draft document shows<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=691\">What are AI PCs that Nvidia\u2019s Jensen Huang is betting on?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=689\">Iran is stopping message exchanges with U.S., may block Hormuz, Tasnim news agency says<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American great Serena \u200cWilliams on Monday announced her long-anticipated return to competitive tennis following a prolonged absence at this month&#8217;s Queen&#8217;s Club Championships, as the 44-year-old reignited memories of her dominance over two decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-tennis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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