{"id":247162,"date":"2026-05-29T00:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T00:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/247162\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T00:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T00:26:15","slug":"report-serena-williams-plans-2026-queens-club-wildcard-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/247162\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Serena Williams Plans 2026 Queen\u2019s Club Wildcard Comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"

Serena Williams is reportedly preparing for a return to professional tennis, just four years after retiring from the sport<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 23-time Grand Slam singles champion is in discussions to compete at the Queen’s Club tournament in London next month. According to reports<\/a>, she’s requested a doubles wildcard entry for the grass-court event.<\/p>\n

The appearance would mark Williams’s first competitive tennis match since the 2022 US Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To make her comeback possible, Williams quietly re-entered the compulsory anti-doping testing pool last year. She recently completed the required six-month testing period, granting her official eligibility to compete on the WTA Tour.<\/p>\n

While she has yet to confirm her pick in doubles partner, former men’s No. 1 Andy Roddick claimed Williams was eyeing 19-year-old Canadian standout Victoria Mboko<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Queen\u2019s Club WTA 500 event<\/a> begins on June 8th, immediately following the 2026 French Open. Tournament organizers hold two available doubles wildcard slots, allowing them to easily accommodate the 44-year-old legend. Tour rules additionally allow special wildcard entries for former world No. 1 players and Grand Slam champions.<\/p>\n

Rumors Link Serena Williams to 2026 Wimbledon Singles Draw<\/p>\n

While Williams reportedly remains focused on doubles<\/a>, the Queen’s Club news sparked speculation about her future plans. Roddick predicted that the US superstar will eventually transition back to singles \u2014 possibly as early as this year’s Wimbledon.<\/p>\n

Other tennis stars expressed immediate excitement about Williams’s potential return \u2014 including former No. 1 Naomi Osaka.<\/p>\n

“For me, that’s definitely something I would be really excited about \u2014 just to see her around the sites and playing matches again,” Osaka told press following her latest 2026 French Open victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fellow US standout Madison Keys echoed Osaka’s enthusiasm. <\/p>\n

“Let’s be real, we all want to watch Serena play tennis,” said Keys. “You literally get to watch history every single time she takes the court, so why not want more?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serena Williams is reportedly preparing for a return to professional tennis, just four years after retiring from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[96598,96599,96600,96601,9,24,63,122,124,123,82657],"class_list":["post-247162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-2026-french-open","tag-2026-queens-club","tag-2026-wimbledon","tag-2026-wta-season","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-serena-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247162","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=247162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}