{"id":262749,"date":"2026-06-11T02:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T02:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/262749\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T02:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T02:51:13","slug":"hsbc-championships-2026-mboko-injury-looms-over-williams-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/262749\/","title":{"rendered":"HSBC Championships 2026: Mboko Injury Looms Over Williams Comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victoria Mboko withdrew from her first-round singles match at the 2026 HSBC Championships on Wednesday, after the 19-year-old Canadian<\/a> slipped and fell while trailing Karolina Pliskova 6-2, 3-4 on grass.<\/p>\n

Mboko reportedly told her physiotherapist<\/a> she had “no stability” after the fall, limping back to her bench and putting a towel to her face. Despite taking an immediate medical timeout, the tournament’s No. 3 seed could not continue her grass-court singles debut at London’s Queen’s Club.<\/p>\n

Mboko Injury Looms Over Doubles Run with Serena Williams<\/p>\n

The setback now puts the world No. 9’s<\/a> doubles partnership with Serena Williams in doubt.<\/p>\n

Williams, 44, returned to competitive tennis<\/a> at Queen’s Club after nearly four years away from the WTA Tour. Her last professional match came at the 2022 US Open.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the pair opened with a straight-sets win<\/a> over third-seeded Erin Routliffe and Nicole Melichar-Martinez, 7-6(2), 6-2. They are next scheduled to face Canada’s Leylah Fernandez and Germany’s Laura Siegemund in Thursday’s quarterfinals.<\/p>\n

Whether Mboko can recover in time will determine if the partnership continues in the WTA 500 event<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victoria Mboko withdrew from her first-round singles match at the 2026 HSBC Championships on Wednesday, after the 19-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[98803,101928,9,24,63,122,124,123,82657,79755],"class_list":["post-262749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-2026-hsbc-championships","tag-hsbc-womens-world-championship","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\/262749","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=262749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}