{"id":246250,"date":"2026-05-28T12:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T12:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/246250\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T12:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T12:06:08","slug":"serena-williams-to-make-tennis-comeback-at-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/246250\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams to make tennis comeback at Queen\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Served_Podcast\/status\/2059835732764557768?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Served podcast<\/a>, hosted by her friend Andy Roddick, suggested that she intends to play alongside Victoria Mboko, the Canadian who has climbed to No 9 in the world at the age of 19.<\/p>\n<p>The news is a huge fillip for the tennis tour, and will add to the feeling that the women\u2019s game is offering greater drama and intrigue than the men\u2019s in this <a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/tennis\/2026\/05\/17\/jannik-sinner-rome-masters-titles-french-open-alcaraz-ruud\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jannik Sinner-dominated era.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It should also raise the profile of the HSBC Championships, the new Women\u2019s Tennis Association (WTA) 500-point event which made its debut at Queen\u2019s Club last summer, with Germany\u2019s Tatjana Maria the unexpected winner.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Served podcast, hosted by her friend Andy Roddick, suggested that she intends to play alongside Victoria Mboko,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123,82657,4875,7018,15547,4405,96186,96185,96187,9168],"class_list":["post-246250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-serena-williams","tag-sport","tag-standard","tag-tennis","tag-top-story","tag-us-content","tag-wimbledon-tennis","tag-womens-sport","tag-wta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}