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Serena Williams<\/a> has been practising at Wimbledon<\/a> as she prepares for her return to grand slam tennis later this month.<\/p>\n The 44-year-old was this week given a wild card into the women\u2019s doubles alongside sister Venus<\/a> after beginning her comeback at Queen\u2019s Club.<\/p>\n Williams posted a video on Instagram<\/a> on Thursday showing her at Wimbledon\u2019s Aorangi Park practice courts along with daughters Olympia<\/a> and Adira.<\/p>\n Dressed in the All England Club\u2019s signature all white, Williams looked relaxed as she allowed eight-year-old Olympia to hit some forehands.<\/p>\n The sisters won the last of their 14 grand slam doubles titles together at Wimbledon a decade ago and have not played a match as a partnership since 2022.<\/p>\n Williams ended nearly four years away from the match court last week, winning her first contest at Queen\u2019s alongside Victoria Mboko before the Canadian\u2019s unfortunate injury curtailed their run.<\/p>\n She then headed to Berlin but suffered a first-round loss at the WTA Tour event playing with Karolina Muchova.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-745629","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\/745629","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=745629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}