{"id":258942,"date":"2026-06-08T07:56:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T07:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/258942\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T07:56:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T07:56:40","slug":"when-is-serena-williams-tennis-comeback-how-to-watch-queens-doubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/258942\/","title":{"rendered":"When is Serena Williams\u2019 tennis comeback? How to watch Queen\u2019s doubles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Serena Williams<\/a> kickstarts her much-anticipated comeback to tennis this week as she will play in the women\u2019s doubles tournament at Queen\u2019s.<\/a><\/p>\n

The 44-year-old announced last week that she would make her return to competitive tennis this summer, nearly four years after she last played.<\/p>\n

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She lost in the third round of the 2022 US Open<\/a> to Ajla Tomljanovic having previously announced that she was \u201cevolving away\u201d from tennis, but steered clear of the word \u201cretirement\u201d, leaving the door open to a return to the sport.<\/p>\n

She sparked rumours that she was eyeing a comeback when she re-entered the International Tennis Integrity Agency\u2019s anti-doping testing pool last August, a requirement to compete on the professional tour, and she has been cleared to compete competitively since 22 February<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 23-time grand slam champion received a wildcard to play doubles at Queen\u2019s, a major tournament in the lead-up to Wimbledon<\/a>, and will partner Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko, who idolised Williams growing up.<\/p>\n

The news has further fuelled speculation that she will receive either a singles or doubles wildcard to Wimbledon, where she last played in a first-round loss in 2022.<\/p>\n

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When does Serena Williams play at Queen\u2019s?<\/p>\n

Williams and Mboko will most likely play their first-round match on Tuesday 9 June, the second day of the doubles draw at Queen\u2019s.<\/p>\n

The pair have been drawn difficult opponents: they will play third seeds Nicole Melichar-Martinez of the USA and New Zealand\u2019s Erin Routliffe.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere Katie Boulter and Emma Raducanu will reprise their doubles partnership from last year\u2019s tournament as they have been granted a wildcard. The British pair will play fourth seeds Storm Hunter and Zhang Shuai.<\/p>\n

How to watch Queen\u2019s<\/p>\n

Viewers in the UK can follow the Queen\u2019s tournament on BBC Two and iPlayer, with the men\u2019s and women\u2019s semi-finals and finals on BBC One and iPlayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serena Williams kickstarts her much-anticipated comeback to tennis this week as she will play in the women\u2019s doubles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[100775,100799,9,24,63,122,124,123,82657,79755],"class_list":["post-258942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-competitive-tennis","tag-doubles-tournament","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-serena-williams","tag-victoria-mboko"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258942","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=258942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}