{"id":714919,"date":"2026-06-04T17:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T17:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/714919\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T17:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T17:04:09","slug":"serena-williams-tennis-comeback-to-begin-with-19-year-old-doubles-partner-victoria-mboko-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/714919\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams\u2019 tennis comeback to begin with 19-year-old doubles partner Victoria Mboko | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1780592649_357_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Victoria Mboko of Canada returns to Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic during their second round women&#8217;s singles tennis match at the French Open tennis tournament in Paris, Thursday, May 28, 2026. (AP Photo\/Thibault Camus)<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJun 4, 2026 | 7:26 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>LONDON (AP) \u2014 Serena Williams will make her eagerly anticipated <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/serena-williams-comeback-tennis-b0696e1d76b0e7695d6e7d6fc4a78875\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">return to professional tennis<\/a> playing doubles alongside a partner who is 25 years younger.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Mboko, the 19-year-old Canadian ranked No. 9, revealed Thursday she would have the \u201chonor\u201d of playing with the 44-year-old Williams as wild-card entries at the Queen\u2019s Club next week.<\/p>\n<p>They practiced on the grass courts in west London on Thursday, with Williams <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/the_LTA\/status\/2062536246803484889?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">seen hitting balls<\/a> in a purple top and white pants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Queen is back,\u201d Mboko wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DZKapUgqulN\/?igsh=YXpqMDhpc2N3MGFr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a post on Instagram<\/a> alongside a picture of her standing next to Williams. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victoria Mboko of Canada returns to Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic during their second round women&#8217;s singles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82,593],"class_list":["post-714919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714919","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=714919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}