{"id":258823,"date":"2026-06-08T04:04:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T04:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/258823\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T04:04:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T04:04:59","slug":"serena-williams-has-nothing-to-prove-in-queens-doubles-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/258823\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams has \u2018nothing to prove\u2019 in Queen\u2019s doubles return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-three-time grand slam singles champion Serena Williams is liberating herself of any expectations as she prepares to make her comeback at the HSBC Championships in London. The 44-year-old has been given a wild card for the women\u2019s doubles to play alongside 19-year-old Canadian Victoria Mboko at the Queen\u2019s Club, marking her first competitive tennis since a farewell at the 2022 US Open. Williams said her decision to pick up a racket again boiled down to a simple \u201cWhy not?\u201d, and while Mboko feels her partner is \u201chitting great\u201d, the American insists she is not focused on any outcomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twenty-three-time grand slam singles champion Serena Williams is liberating herself of any expectations as she prepares to make&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[100775,67900,9,24,63,21130,122,124,123,82657,79755,97811],"class_list":["post-258823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-competitive-tennis","tag-grand-slam","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens-club","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-serena-williams","tag-victoria-mboko","tag-womens-doubles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258823","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=258823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}