{"id":699915,"date":"2026-05-28T19:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/699915\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T19:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:02:08","slug":"report-serena-williams-eyeing-return-in-doubles-with-canadas-victoria-mboko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/699915\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Serena Williams eyeing return in doubles with Canada\u2019s Victoria Mboko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to multiple reports, Serena Williams is in discussions about a potential return to competitive tennis in doubles at the HSBC Championship at the Queen\u2019s Club next month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sports Illustrated\u2019s Jon Wertheim adds that Williams is looking to take the court at the Wimbledon warmup with Canadian Vicky Mboko. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Williams was ruled eligible to return in February, six months after registering with the International Tennis Integrity Agency. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 23-time Grand Slam singles champion last played at the 2022 U.S. Open, though she has avoided using the word \u201cretired\u201d throughout her absence. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Williams will turn 45 in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to multiple reports, Serena Williams is in discussions about a potential return to competitive tennis in doubles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[712,49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-699915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}