{"id":265186,"date":"2026-01-30T10:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T10:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/265186\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T10:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T10:05:08","slug":"serena-williams-fuels-comeback-speculation-during-tv-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/265186\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams fuels comeback speculation during TV interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serena Williams has tennis players buzzing about a possible return after she playfully dodged questions about re-entering the sport&#8217;s anti-doping testing pool during a television appearance that left more questions than answers.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-time Grand Slam champion raised eyebrows last December when she rejoined the tennis anti-doping testing pool, though she \u200bdenied at the time that the move signaled a comeback to \u200dthe sport \u2060she dominated for nearly two decades.<\/p>\n<p>But her coy \u200dresponses during a Wednesday appearance on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Today&#8221; show have reignited speculation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serena Williams has tennis players buzzing about a possible return after she playfully dodged questions about re-entering the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[29992,85,46,8978,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-265186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-australian-open","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-serena-williams","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}