{"id":309115,"date":"2026-06-16T12:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/309115\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T12:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:03:08","slug":"serena-and-venus-williams-to-play-doubles-together-at-wimbledon-orlando-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/309115\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena and Venus Williams to play doubles together at Wimbledon \u2013 Orlando Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON (AP) \u2014 Serena<\/a> and Venus Williams<\/a> are bringing their doubles partnership back at Wimbledon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The All England Club announced a doubles wild card invitation on Tuesday for the sisters to the tournament which starts in less than two weeks.<\/p>\n

The move comes after 44-year-old Serena recently returned<\/a> to competition after nearly four years away from professional tennis.<\/p>\n

Venus, who has still been competing sporadically, turns 46 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The Williams sisters have won 14 Grand Slam titles together in doubles, including six at Wimbledon \u2014 the first of them in 2000 and the last in 2016.<\/p>\n

Serena won her first doubles match<\/a> with partner Victoria Mboko at Queen\u2019s Club in London last week and was slated to play doubles with Karolina Muchova at the Berlin Open later Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The Williams sisters last played doubles together<\/a> at the 2022 U.S. Open, where they lost their opening match. That was the first time they played doubles together in 4 \u00bd years.<\/p>\n

Serena and Mboko won their opening match at Queen\u2019s Club but then had to withdraw after Mboko injured her knee in a singles match.<\/p>\n

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AP tennis: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 Serena and Venus Williams are bringing their doubles partnership back at Wimbledon. The All England…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[29,114,5741,115,139,141,140,109,110,32029,10645],"class_list":["post-309115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-florida-news","tag-latest-headlines","tag-national-news","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-social","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}