{"id":771172,"date":"2026-06-30T14:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/771172\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T14:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:12:08","slug":"serena-williams-set-to-make-much-anticipated-singles-return-on-day-2-at-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/771172\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams set to make much-anticipated singles return on Day 2 at Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LONDON (AP) \u2014 Serena Williams is set to return to Wimbledon\u2019s Centre Court on Tuesday for her first singles match in nearly four years as she plays Maya Joint in the first round of the Grand Slam tournament. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/live\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/live\">Watch Serena\u2019s match at roughly 1:30pm ET\/10:30am PT on TSN.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Defending women\u2019s champion Iga Swiatek opens play on the main court, but the 44-year-old Williams is certainly the main attraction on Day 2. She\u2019s going up against an opponent less than half her age in the 20-year-old Joint, from Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After returning to play doubles at Queen\u2019s Club this month, Williams accepted wild cards to play in both the singles and doubles tournament \u2014 with her older sister Venus \u2014 at Wimbledon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Her return has certainly created a buzz around the All England Club, which is without some of its usual star power after two-time men\u2019s champion Carlos Alcaraz and home favorite Emma Raducanu both withdrew with injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After the opening day featured wins for No. 1s Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka, along with Novak Djokovic, this year\u2019s French Open winner Alexander Zverev is also set to play on Centre Court on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sixth-seeded American Taylor Fritz faces Dusan Lajovic of Serbia after Britain\u2019s Jack Draper also pulled out with an injury. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP tennis: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 Serena Williams is set to return to Wimbledon\u2019s Centre Court on Tuesday for her first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-771172","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\/771172","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=771172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}