{"id":263382,"date":"2026-06-11T16:58:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/263382\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T16:58:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:58:47","slug":"serena-williams-leaves-queens-club-after-her-doubles-partner-victoria-mboko-gets-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/263382\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams leaves Queen&#8217;s Club after her doubles partner Victoria Mboko gets injured &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serena Williams&#8217; triumphant return to tennis, four years after her retirement, has been cut short. The 44-year-old player won alongside her partner Victoria Mboko, a 19-year-old Canadian player, their first women&#8217;s doubles match at Queen&#8217;s Championship, against Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Erin Routliffe, with Williams joking her performance &#8220;was a C-minus&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But her journey is over, as Mboko suffered a fall during her singles&#8217; match on Wednesday, which forced her to retire when she was trailing 6-2, 3-4 against Karolina Pliskova. She left the court limping, in tears, and naturally has also withdrawn from the women&#8217;s doubles, although the extent of her injury is still not known.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Vicky Mboko, you&#8217;re an incredible talent and you&#8217;ll be back out there in no time. Wishing you a speedy recovery&#8221;, said Williams on Instagram. Serena Williams will now look ahead at Wimbledon, where she could receive a wildcard, but before that she will team up with Czech Karolina Muchova, world no. 10, for a doubles match in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"img-1734093-4805733\" data-fullsize=\"\/media\/57\/serenawilliamswill_4805733b.jpg\" data-lazy=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamereactor.euhttps:\/\/www.gamereactor.eu\/media\/57\/serenawilliamswill_4805733_650x.jpg\" width=\"650\" onclick=\"if (!window.__cfRLUnblockHandlers) return false; gallery_openmodal('1734093','4805733',false,'d0a62b2b138867d96f0521c38484b4c3');\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Serena Williams leaves Queen's Club after her doubles partner Victoria Mboko gets injured\" class=\"rwd_col_content lazy\" data-cf-modified-5b94742ecfcc00ffaff55219-=\"\"\/>Dorothy Hong \/ Shutterstock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serena Williams&#8217; triumphant return to tennis, four years after her retirement, has been cut short. The 44-year-old player&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-263382","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\/263382","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=263382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}