{"id":251712,"date":"2026-06-02T01:56:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T01:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/251712\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T01:56:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T01:56:28","slug":"the-goat-returns-serena-williams-confirms-sensational-tennis-comeback-at-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/251712\/","title":{"rendered":"The GOAT returns: Serena Williams confirms sensational tennis comeback at Queen&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph ue-c-article--first-letter-highlighted\">What was an open secret is now a reality. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marca.com\/en\/tennis\/serena-williams.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Serena Williams<\/a>, a 23-time major champion at 44 years old, returns to official competition in mid-June at the Queen&#8221;s WTA 250 on grass (June 6 to 14). She will do so in the doubles event alongside Canadian Mboko, with an age difference of 25 years. The news was first reported four days ago by her compatriot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marca.com\/en\/tennis\/2026\/02\/12\/698dc81446163fd05f8b4585.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Roddick<\/a> on the podcast.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">&#8216;Serena, who has not played a match since her elimination on September 2 at the 2022 US Open in the third round against Ajla Tomljanovic, has requested wild cards for Queen&#8221;s, Berlin and Wimbledon. And she could also play singles in one of them.\u00a0&#8216;<\/p>\n<p>Frances Tiafoe mocks Jaime Faria during heated Roland Garros clash before stunning comeback win<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">The tennis legend always avoided uttering the word &#8220;retirement&#8221; in all her public appearances, leaving open the possibility of a comeback that is now a reality.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Registered with the World Anti-Doping Agency register<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">The younger Williams sister re-entered the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) anti-doping testing pool in October 2025 and needed to wait six months before competing again. That time has already passed.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">Serena traveled to Oviedo (Spain) last October 24 to receive the Princess of Asturias Award for Sports.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What was an open secret is now a reality. Serena Williams, a 23-time major champion at 44 years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-251712","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\/251712","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=251712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}