{"id":699395,"date":"2026-06-12T08:47:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T08:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/699395\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T08:47:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T08:47:22","slug":"serena-williams-comeback-at-the-queens-club-is-over-after-injury-to-doubles-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/699395\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams\u2019 comeback at the Queen\u2019s Club is over after injury to doubles partner"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON \u2014 Serena Williams\u2019 much-hyped comeback<\/a> to professional tennis at the Queen\u2019s Club lasted just one match.<\/p>\n

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The 44-year-old Williams\u2019 doubles partner, 19-year-old Canadian Victoria Mboko, was forced to withdraw from the draw Thursday because of a knee injury she sustained in a singles match against Karol\u00edna Pl\u00ed\u0161kov\u00e1 in the last 16 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

In her first professional match since the 2022 U.S. Open, Williams teamed up with Mboko to beat the third-seeded duo, Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Erin Routliffe, 7-6 (2), 6-2 at the grass-court event on Tuesday. They were scheduled to face Leylah Fernandez and Laura Siegemund in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n

\"VictoriaThe chair umpire checks on Victoria Mboko after she slipped on the court Wednesday.Paul Harding \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

Williams is set to play doubles at the Berlin Open next week. Her partner has yet to be announced; The Times of London reported it was Karol\u00edna Muchov\u00e1. <\/p>\n

Williams won 23 Grand Slam singles titles \u2014 including seven at Wimbledon \u2014 before stepping away from the game, saying at the time she was \u201cevolving\u201d away from tennis rather than \u201cretiring.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON \u2014 Serena Williams\u2019 much-hyped comeback to professional tennis at the Queen\u2019s Club lasted just one match. Subscribe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-699395","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\/699395","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=699395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}