LONDON \u2014 Serena Williams\u2019 doubles campaign at Queen\u2019s Club could be over after one match.<\/p>\n
Victoria Mboko, the American star’s doubles partner, retired from her singles match against Karolina Pliskova on Wednesday after sustaining a knee injury in the second set.<\/p>\n
Williams and Mboko had\u00a0won their opening doubles match\u00a0Tuesday \u2014 in the 44-year-old Williams’ return to professional tennis after nearly four years away from the sport \u2014 and are scheduled to play again Thursday.<\/p>\n
The 19-year-old Canadian slipped behind the baseline and immediately grabbed her left knee while facing Pliskova. Mboko lost the first set 6-2 and was up 4-3 in the second and trying to break with Pliskova serving at deuce.<\/p>\n
Mboko got up on her own but then told a physiotherapist there was \u201cno stability right now.”<\/p>\n
She walked gingerly to her bench and put a towel to her face as she sat down. Minutes later, she retired from the match.<\/p>\n
Williams had previously announced that she will also play\u00a0doubles at the Berlin Open\u00a0next week.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Williams and Mboko beat third-seeded duo Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Erin Routliffe 7-6 (2), 6-2 in Williams\u2019 first professional match\u00a0since the 2022 U.S. Open. They’re scheduled to face Leylah Fernandez and Laura Siegemund in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n
Mboko is ranked No. 9 in singles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON \u2014 Serena Williams\u2019 doubles campaign at Queen\u2019s Club could be over after one match. Victoria Mboko, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-729098","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\/729098","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=729098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}