{"id":264091,"date":"2026-06-12T03:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/264091\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T03:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:02:19","slug":"hsbc-championships-2026-serena-williams-exits-queens-club-after-mboko-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/264091\/","title":{"rendered":"HSBC Championships 2026: Serena Williams Exits Queen’s Club After Mboko Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Serena Williams saw her Queen’s Club doubles run<\/a> end Thursday, after partner Victoria Mboko withdrew from the tournament with a knee injury<\/a>. The 23-time Grand Slam champion had returned to competitive tennis just two days earlier at the 2026 HSBC Championships.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Williams paired with the 19-year-old Canadian for her first competitive match in four years.<\/p>\n

Together, they defeated<\/a> Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Erin Routliffe in straight sets in front of a packed London crowd. The win set up a quarterfinal meeting with Leylah Fernandez and Laura Siegemund.<\/p>\n

However, the quarterfinal won’t be taking place.<\/p>\n

Mboko Withdraws from Williams Partnership with Knee Injury<\/p>\n

Victoria Mboko slipped on the grass during her Wednesday singles match debut against Karolina Pl\u00ed\u0161kov\u00e1 and injured her left knee<\/a>. Citing a lack of stability, Mboko subsequently exited the Queen’s Club grass court.<\/p>\n

The world No. 9 was unable to recover in time for today’s doubles commitment, forcing her to withdraw just hours before the scheduled match with Serena Williams.<\/p>\n

Still, Williams’s comeback tour continues. She heads to the Berlin Open next week to resume her doubles campaign<\/a> alongside Karolina Muchova.<\/p>\n

Mboko, meanwhile, will look to bounce back before opening her Wimbledon singles campaign later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serena Williams saw her Queen’s Club doubles run end Thursday, after partner Victoria Mboko withdrew from the tournament…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[98803,96599,101928,9,24,63,122,124,123,82657,79755],"class_list":["post-264091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-2026-hsbc-championships","tag-2026-queens-club","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\/264091","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=264091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}