{"id":762226,"date":"2026-06-26T10:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T10:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/762226\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T10:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T10:14:10","slug":"tennis-williams-to-face-australias-joint-in-wimbledon-comeback-the-mighty-790-kfgo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/762226\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis-Williams to face Australia\u2019s Joint in Wimbledon comeback | The Mighty 790 KFGO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, June 26 (Reuters) \u2013 American great Serena Williams will face Australia\u2019s Maya \u200bJoint in the \u200cfirst round of her Wimbledon comeback.<\/p>\n<p>The seven-time Wimbledon champion will be playing at \u200cthe \u200btournament for the \u2060first time since \u20602022 having recently returned to the Tour.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, 44, has not played a \u200bcompetitive singles match since the 2022 U.S. \u2060Open, after \u2060which she said \u200bshe was \u201cevolving away from tennis\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Top \u200bseed Aryna Sabalenka, bidding \u200cfor her first title at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, begins \u2060against Serbian qualifier Teodora Kostovic, while defending champion Iga Swiatek \u2060faces \u200cAmerican Taylor Townsend.<\/p>\n<p>Third \u2060seed Swiatek was \u200bdrawn \u200cin the same half \u200bas \u2060second seed Elena Rybakina, who opens against Lois Boisson of France.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Martyn Herman; Editing by Hugh \u200bLawson)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON, June 26 (Reuters) \u2013 American great Serena Williams will face Australia\u2019s Maya \u200bJoint in the \u200cfirst round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-762226","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\/762226","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=762226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}