{"id":709740,"date":"2026-06-02T05:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T05:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/709740\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T05:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T05:30:15","slug":"serena-williams-to-return-to-tennis-at-queens-club-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/709740\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams to return to tennis at Queen\u2019s Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serena Williams confirmed her return to tennis on Monday after an absence of nearly four years, with the American great set to compete in women\u2019s doubles at Queen\u2019s Club next week.<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old, who has not played competitively since the 2022 U.S. Open, has been granted a wild card for the grass-court London tournament, which starts on June 8.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-time Grand Slam singles champion will reportedly play alongside teenage Canadian Victoria Mboko.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serena Williams confirmed her return to tennis on Monday after an absence of nearly four years, with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,345095,6413,85,747],"class_list":["post-709740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-queens-club","tag-serena-williams","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}