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Serena Williams<\/a>\u2019 participation in her second-round doubles match at Queen\u2019s is in serious doubt after her partner Victoria Mboko sustained a nasty injury on Wednesday. <\/p>\n

Canadian star Mboko was battling back in the second set of her match against Karolina Pliskova when she slipped on the grass at the back of the court. <\/p>\n

The 19-year-old was in tears as she received treatment on her knee and was forced to retire from the second-round encounter on Andy Murray Arena. <\/p>\n

Mboko is due to play alongside Williams against Leylah Fernandez and Laura Siegemund in the fourth and final match on Thursday \u2013 but it now seems extremely likely that they will have to withdraw from the match. <\/p>\n

Williams, 44, looked in fine fettle as she returned to the match court after almost four years on Tuesday alongside Mboko. <\/p>\n

The pair defeated the third seeds<\/a> of Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Erin Routliffe, 7-6 6-2, with a full house on the stadium court at Queen\u2019s Club. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was so fun,\u201d Williams said on court. \u201cYou can do anything at any age.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cI think I was nervous, but I didn’t really think about it. I didn’t really think about being nervous. I just thought about having fun, which I did today.<\/p>\n

\"SerenaSerena Williams won on her return to tennis on Tuesday (Getty)<\/p>\n

\u201cI never got to play here, it was always just the men. It feels very special to play somewhere so iconic. It\u2019s very cool.\u201d<\/p>\n

Williams will next play at the grass-court event in Berlin next week and is set to partner Karolina Muchova<\/a> in the doubles. <\/p>\n

The American is yet to confirm whether she will play at Wimbledon, but said on Tuesday: \u201cIt’s just a day at a time. I still have a little time to decide. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey have been great about giving me that space and time to decide.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-262358","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\/262358","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=262358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}