{"id":531798,"date":"2026-07-03T22:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T22:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/531798\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T22:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T22:14:07","slug":"wimbledon-2026-serena-williams-and-venus-williams-added-to-saturdays-order-of-play-but-not-allocated-a-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/531798\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon 2026: Serena Williams and Venus Williams added to Saturday’s order of play but not allocated a court"},"content":{"rendered":"

Serena Williams’ hopes of playing alongside older sister Venus in the Wimbledon doubles look to have improved after the pair’s match was added to Saturday’s order of play.<\/p>\n

Williams, 44, picked up a knee injury<\/a> in her singles comeback on Tuesday, when she lost to Australia’s Maya Joint.<\/p>\n

The sisters, who are six-time doubles champions at the All England Club, are scheduled to reunite on a Grand Slam court for the first time since 2022.<\/p>\n

Their match against Colombia’s Camila Osorio and Argentina’s Solana Sierra has not been allocated a court, but organisers say it will not be played before 16:30 BST.<\/p>\n

It suggests Serena Williams is being given as long as possible to declare herself fit after her knee swelled up during a gallant three-set defeat by 20-year-old Joint.<\/p>\n

Sources close to the 23-time Grand Slam singles champion told BBC Sport on Friday that the plan is for her to play.<\/p>\n

It is likely the Williams sisters, who were given a wildcard, will be put on one of Wimbledon’s biggest show courts once the day’s singles matches have finished.<\/p>\n

However, the loose scheduling leaves Wimbledon with no issues in case the American superstars do withdraw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serena Williams’ hopes of playing alongside older sister Venus in the Wimbledon doubles look to have improved after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-531798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}