{"id":730960,"date":"2026-06-12T01:35:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T01:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/730960\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T01:35:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T01:35:33","slug":"serena-williams-exits-queens-club-after-doubles-partner-victoria-mboko-suffers-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/730960\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams Exits Queen\u2019s Club After Doubles Partner Victoria Mboko Suffers Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

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LONDON, ENGLAND – JUNE 09: Serena Williams of the United States and Victoria Mboko of Canada wave to the crowd following victory over Nicole Melichar-Martinez of the United States and Erin Routliffe of New Zealand during the Women’s Doubles first round match on Day Two of the HSBC Championships at The Queen’s Club on June 09, 2026 in London, England. (Photo by Paul Harding\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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Serena William<\/a>s\u2019 return to the tennis court at Queen\u2019s Club has ended prematurely after doubles partner Victoria Mboko withdrew from the tournament with a knee injury.<\/p>\n

Williams, 44, and Mboko, 19, pulled out of the doubles competition, ending their run before their second-round match.<\/p>\n

Mboko suffered the injury during her singles match against Karolina Pliskova on Wednesday. The teenager left the court in tears after retiring while trailing 6-2, 3-4 in the second set. The injury casts doubt on her availability for Wimbledon.<\/p>\n

Williams and Mboko beat Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Erin Routliffe in the opening round on Tuesday and were due to face Canada\u2019s Layla Fernandez and Germany\u2019s Laura Siegemund in the quarterfinals on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Williams, the 23-time major champion and GOAT of women\u2019s tennis, was making her first competitive appearance since the 2022 US Open.<\/p>\n

Williams is set to continue her comeback at the Berlin Tennis Open with an unnamed partner. That event begins on June 15. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON, ENGLAND – JUNE 09: Serena Williams of the United States and Victoria Mboko of Canada wave to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-730960","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\/730960","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=730960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}