{"id":251855,"date":"2026-06-02T04:19:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T04:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/251855\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T04:19:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T04:19:31","slug":"serena-williams-returns-to-tennis-after-three-years-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/251855\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams returns to tennis after three years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Serena Williams is returning to the sport she dominated. <\/p>\n

Williams didn\u2019t call stepping away from the game a retirement, but she hasn\u2019t played in a match for three years, CNN<\/a> reported. <\/p>\n

\u201cI have never liked the word retirement,\u201d she said at the time, according to Vogue<\/a>. Instead, she said she was going to \u201cevolve away from tennis.\u201d<\/p>\n

But she is stepping back into the game. <\/p>\n

The Queens Club announced Williams\u2019 return on social media<\/a>, saying she will play in the doubles at the championship.<\/p>\n

She also posted to X <\/a>that \u201cGood news travels fast.\u201d <\/p>\n

The HSBC Championships begin in London on June 6. The women\u2019s doubles tournament will start on June 8. She\u2019s expected to play alongside Canadian teen Victoria Mboko, the BBC<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

The 44-year-old icon won 23 Grand Slam singles titles over 27 years, before she left in 2022, according to the BBC<\/a>. The 23 championships are the most won by a woman in the Open era, and one fewer than the record 24, earned by Margaret Court.<\/p>\n

Check back for more on this developing story.<\/p>\n

\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serena Williams is returning to the sport she dominated. Williams didn\u2019t call stepping away from the game a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[98300,3622,9,24,63,122,124,123,82657,3623],"class_list":["post-251855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-atp-tour-tennis","tag-bestof","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-serena-williams","tag-topix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251855","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=251855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}