{"id":702149,"date":"2026-06-13T18:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T18:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/702149\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T18:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T18:35:09","slug":"serena-williams-to-partner-karolina-muchova-at-berlin-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/702149\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams to partner Karolina Muchova at Berlin Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

Serena Williams will partner Czech Karolina Muchova at next week’s Berlin Open as she continues her comeback.<\/p>\n

The 44-year-old, a 23-time Grand Slam singles champion, made her return to tennis earlier this week at Queen’s after almost four years away from the sport, partnering Victoria Mboko in the women’s doubles.<\/p>\n

The pair made a winning start as they upset third seeds Erin Routliffe and Nicole Melichar-Martinez in straight sets, but had to withdraw from their quarter-final<\/a> after Mboko suffered a nasty fall in her singles tie.<\/p>\n

Muchova, 29, is a two-time Wimbledon quarter-finalist in the women’s singles and sits 10th in the WTA rankings.<\/p>\n

“I’m pretty excited about it. It doesn’t happen every day that such an amazing athlete, not only in tennis but overall in sport, asks you to play tennis with her. I hope it’s going to be fun,” Muchova said at a press conference in Berlin on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Mboko, who retired from her match against Karolina Pliskova, has been ruled out of the remainder of the grass-court season, including Wimbledon, with a medial collateral ligament injury in her left knee. <\/p>\n

“Unfortunately, my fall on Wednesday caused an injury to the MCL in my left knee,” Mboko said. “I had been so looking forward to playing [Wimbledon] this year.”<\/p>\n

On partnering Williams, she added: “I learned so much from you and I’m sorry our tournament came to an end prematurely, but I hope we can play together again soon and finish what we started.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serena Williams will partner Czech Karolina Muchova at next week’s Berlin Open as she continues her comeback. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-702149","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\/702149","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=702149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}