{"id":250956,"date":"2026-06-01T15:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/250956\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T15:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:55:11","slug":"serena-williams-returns-to-tennis-after-retirement-for-queens-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/250956\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams Returns to Tennis After Retirement for Queen\u2019s Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/serena_williams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Serena Williams<\/a> is so back.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Four years after the 23-time Grand Slam title winner announced her retirement from the professional tennis circuit, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DZC5f9ZRAuL\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">confirmed June 1<\/a> she will return to play competitively at the Queen\u2019s Club Championship in London later this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old\u2014who shares Olympia, 8, and Adira, 2, with husband Alexis Ohanian\u2014shared a social media post of her on a tennis court as her phone blows up with notifications.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGuess everybody heard the news,\u201d a line of text reads over the video as Serena jokingly adds, \u201cI\u2019ve got to change my number.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the video, which was co-posted with Nike, Serena wrote in the caption, \u201cGood news travels fast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Serena\u2019s return to her sport comes after she admitted something \u201chad to give\u201d amid her time balancing playing with growing her family. However, she pushed back against the retirement narrative, even while confirming she was stepping back in August 2022. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serena Williams is so back.\u00a0 Four years after the 23-time Grand Slam title winner announced her retirement from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-250956","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250956","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=250956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}