{"id":700677,"date":"2026-05-29T03:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/700677\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T03:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:14:08","slug":"reports-serena-williams-wants-to-return-in-doubles-with-canadas-victoria-mboko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/700677\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports: Serena Williams wants to return in doubles with Canada&#8217;s Victoria Mboko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serena Williams seems to be planning a return to the court with a Canadian.<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old Williams, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/may\/28\/serena-williams-tennis-comeback-aged-44-queens-london\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">multiple reports<\/a>, is looking to play doubles with rising Canadian star Victoria Mboko at the Queen&#8217;s Club tournament in London, June 8-14.<\/p>\n<p>The event is a grass-court tune-up for Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, a 23-time Grand Slam singles champion, hasn&#8217;t competed since the 2022 U.S. Open. The American legend did return to the drug-testing pool last year, driving speculation that she could return.<\/p>\n<p>Mboko was asked about the possibility of playing with Williams after winning her second-round singles match on Thursday at the French Open.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think for me I want to kind of let the moment (be) for her,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/sports\/20260528-osaka-says-possible-serena-williams-return-would-be-entertaining\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mboko said<\/a>, per AFP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel like if she&#8217;s ready to come back on her own terms, then I feel like it&#8217;s up to her to announce that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Other than that, I don&#8217;t really have much to say. I think the moment is all up to her and when she&#8217;s ready to come back. Yeah, it&#8217;s up to her.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serena Williams seems to be planning a return to the court with a Canadian. The 44-year-old Williams, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-700677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700677","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=700677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}