But Williams has been given a wildcard for the women\u2019s doubles at Queen\u2019s in London, reportedly alongside young Canadian Victoria Mboko.<\/p>\n
\u201cQueen\u2019s Club feels like the perfect place to begin this next chapter,\u201d said Williams, who won the Wimbledon singles title seven times.<\/p>\n
\u201cGrass has given me some of the most meaningful moments of my career, and I\u2019m excited to be back competing on one of the sport\u2019s most iconic stages.\u201d<\/p>\n
The women\u2019s event at Queen\u2019s starts on June 8.<\/p>\n
\u201cSerena Williams is one of the greatest athletes the world has ever seen, and we\u2019re delighted that she will be making her return to tennis at the LTA\u2019s HSBC Championships,\u201d said WTA tournament director Laura Robson.<\/p>\n
\u201cWomen\u2019s tennis made a historic return to the Queen\u2019s Club last year, and now we have an icon of the game stepping back on to court.\u201d<\/p>\n
Williams said in 2022 she did not want to use the word \u201cretiring\u201d but instead explained she was \u201cevolving\u201d away from tennis.<\/p>\n
Her 23 Grand Slam singles titles are the most by a woman in the Open era and put her second on all the all-time list in the women\u2019s behind Australian Margaret Court\u2019s tally of 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But Williams has been given a wildcard for the women\u2019s doubles at Queen\u2019s in London, reportedly alongside young…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59327,74,8239,694,1975,18836,2223,5499,3011,16773,9933,6431,4486,11692,111,139,69,10538,69656,1527,18217,213,3217,1961,61,13971,102,2834,1530],"class_list":["post-456017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-absence","tag-after","tag-american","tag-announces","tag-at","tag-club","tag-confirmed","tag-doubles","tag-four","tag-great","tag-later","tag-londons","tag-month","tag-nearly","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-play","tag-queens","tag-return","tag-serena","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-this","tag-to","tag-williams","tag-with","tag-womens","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}