{"id":246606,"date":"2026-05-28T17:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/246606\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T17:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:19:08","slug":"serena-williams-reportedly-making-comeback-at-queens-club-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/246606\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams Reportedly Making Comeback at Queen’s Club Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

Serena Williams is apparently ready to make her return to the WTA Tour.<\/p>\n

The Athletic reported in December that Williams reentered the registered testing pool for the\u00a0International Tennis Integrity Agency. That news immediately sparked rumors about her coming out of retirement. However, she needs to be in the testing pool for six months in order to be eligible for WTA Tour events.<\/p>\n

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Well, the 23-time Grand Slam champion plans on returning to tennis<\/a> this summer at the 2026 Queen’s Club Championships this June.<\/p>\n

According to Telegraph, the current plan is for Williams to request a wild card to play doubles with Victoria Mboko.<\/p>\n

\"Serena<\/p>\n

Serena Williams defeated Simona Halep, 6-3, 7-6 (5) in the Western and Southern Open finals at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason on Sunday August 23, 2015.\u00a9 Cara Owsley&sol;The Enquirer &sol; USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Has Serena said anything about her rumored comeback?<\/p>\n

Believe it or not, Williams was asked about her future in tennis while on NBC’s “Today.” She was unwilling to confirm or deny the rumors.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI mean, really, are you asking this on\u00a0the \u2018Today\u2019 show? Oh, my goodness,\u201d Williams said. \u201cI\u2019m just having fun and enjoying my life right now. That\u2019s not a yes or no. I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m just gonna see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

Williams, 44, hasn’t competed in a match since her loss to Ajla Tomljanovic in the third round of the 2022 US Open.<\/p>\n

Are you amped up for Williams’ return to the court?<\/p>\n

This story was originally published by The Spun<\/a> on May 28, 2026, where it first appeared in the Tennis<\/a> section. Add The Spun as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serena Williams is apparently ready to make her return to the WTA Tour. The Athletic reported in December…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[96307,9,24,63,122,124,123,82657,96308,96309,79755,96310],"class_list":["post-246606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-lindner-family-tennis-center","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-serena-williams","tag-simona-halep","tag-tennis-integrity-agency","tag-victoria-mboko","tag-wta-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246606","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=246606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}