{"id":752689,"date":"2026-06-22T01:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T01:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/752689\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T01:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T01:46:10","slug":"serena-williams-receives-wimbledon-singles-wild-card-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/752689\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams Receives Wimbledon Singles Wild Card \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richard Pagliaro | Sunday, June 21, 2026
Photo credit: Adam Davy\/PA Sport\/Getty<\/p>\n

Serena Williams will serve up double duty at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n

The 23-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams has accepted a wild card into the Wimbledon ladies\u2019 singles draw, the tournament announced today.<\/p>\n

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The 44-year-old Serena already accepted a Wimbledon doubles wild card to partner 46-year-old sister Venus Williams.<\/p>\n

Seven-time Wimbledon singles champion Serena Williams will play SW19 for the first time since 2022 when she fell to Harmony Tan in the opening round. That was Williams\u2019 second straight Wimbledon opening-round exit following her retirement from her 2021 opener while deadlocked with Aliaksandra Sasnovich. Serena Williams last reached the Wimbledon singles final in 2019, bowing to Simona Halep.<\/p>\n

Overall, Serena owns a 98-14 career singles record at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n

Though she\u2019s only played two grass-court doubles matches this month in preparation for singles and doubles at Wimbledon, Serena said at Queen\u2019s Club competing again feels normal to her.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cI mean, for me it will be. It\u2019s not my responsibility to know what it is for everyone else, and I think that\u2019s the beauty of being an athlete and understanding the importance of honing in and, you know, concentrating,\u201d Serena said. \u201cI feel like once you have been there and you understand that, it doesn\u2019t matter what\u2019s going on in the outside world, as long as you know what you\u2019re there for, and that really helps and makes a huge difference.\u201d<\/p>\n

A former singles and doubles world No. 1, Serena launched her comeback at Queen\u2019s Club on June 9th.<\/p>\n

The icon was inspired playing her first pro match in three years and nine months on London\u2019s lawn.<\/p>\n

Williams and 19-year-old partner Victoria Mboko defeated third seeds Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Erin Routliffe 7-6(2), 6-2 in their Queen\u2019s Club opening match. That dynamic partnership ended after Mboko suffered a knee injury in her singles match against former No. 1 Karolina Pliskova and was forced to retire from Queen\u2019s Club and withdraw from Wimbledon.<\/p>\n

\"\"LONDON, ENGLAND \u2013 JUNE 28: Serena Williams of The United States waves to the crowd after losing against Harmony Tan of France during their Women\u2019s Singles First Round Match on day two of The Championships Wimbledon 2022 at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on June 28, 2022 in London, England. (Photo by Clive Brunskill\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Last Tuesday, doubles specialists Erin Routliffe and Giuliana Olmos scored a 6-4, 6-4 sweep of Muchova and Williams in the Berlin Tennis Open opener.<\/p>\n

Wimbledon is set for June 29th-July 12th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richard Pagliaro | Sunday, June 21, 2026Photo credit: Adam Davy\/PA Sport\/Getty Serena Williams will serve up double duty…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-752689","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\/752689","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=752689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}