{"id":264238,"date":"2026-06-12T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/264238\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T09:00:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T09:00:42","slug":"tennis-serena-out-of-queens-doubles-after-partner-mboko-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/264238\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis-Serena out of Queen\u2019s doubles after partner Mboko injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, June 11 (Reuters) \u2013 Serena Williams\u2019 comeback was put on hold on Thursday \u200bas her doubles partner \u200cVictoria Mboko withdrew from the Queen\u2019s Club WTA event with a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>After nearly four years \u200caway, \u200bthe 44-year-old American \u2060great partnered Canadian \u2060teenager Mboko to victory against Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Erin Routliffe in front of a \u200bsell-out crowd on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>They were scheduled to play Canada\u2019s \u2060Leylah Fernandez \u2060and Germany\u2019s Laura Siegemund \u200bin the quarter-final, but 19-year-old Mboko \u200bhas been forced to withdraw \u200cafter slipping painfully during her singles match against Czech Republic\u2019s Karolina Pliskova on \u2060Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Mboko had to retire from that match and left the court hobbling \u2060and \u200cclose to tears.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, who \u2060has won 23 \u200bGrand \u200cSlam singles titles, will \u200bcontinue her \u2060comeback in Berlin next week and could seek a wildcard for the Wimbledon championships.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Martyn Herman; Editing by \u200bAndrew Cawthorbne)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON, June 11 (Reuters) \u2013 Serena Williams\u2019 comeback was put on hold on Thursday \u200bas her doubles partner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-264238","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\/264238","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=264238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}