{"id":685520,"date":"2026-06-05T07:34:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T07:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/685520\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T07:34:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T07:34:20","slug":"serena-williams-comeback-to-begin-with-19-year-old-doubles-partner-victoria-mboko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/685520\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams\u2019 comeback to begin with 19-year-old doubles partner Victoria Mboko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 Serena Williams will make her eagerly-anticipated return to professional tennis playing doubles alongside a partner who is 25 years younger.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Mboko, the 19-year-old Canadian ranked No. 9, revealed she would have the \u201chonor\u201d of playing with the 44-year-old Williams as wild-card entries at the Queen\u2019s Club.<\/p>\n<p>They practiced on the grass courts in west London, with Williams seen hitting balls in a purple top and white pants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Queen is back,\u201d Mboko wrote in a post on Instagram alongside a picture of her standing next to Williams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn honor to share the court with one of the greatest athletes of all time this week,\u201d Mboko added. \u201cEven more excited to play doubles together! Tennis is pretty special.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the French Open, Mboko said of Williams: \u201cI really look up to her. I mean, the fact that she even knows me is very exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Williams, a 23-time Grand Slam singles champion, stepped away from tennis in 2022. She has yet to say whether she plans to play at Wimbledon or the U.S. Open in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON \u2014 Serena Williams will make her eagerly-anticipated return to professional tennis playing doubles alongside a partner who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-685520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}