Serena Williams’ tennis comeback: Wimbledon singles and doubles with Venus to come

Editor’s note: This explainer has been updated June 21, 2026, to reflect news of Serena Williams playing singles at Wimbledon as a wild card.Serena Williams, considered by many the greatest women’s tennis player of all time, will return to the singles court at Wimbledon, as a wild card, after almost four years away.Williams, 44, will play her first Grand Slam main draw since the 2022 U.

S. Open, the tournament confirmed Sunday June 21. She is also reuniting with her sister Venus for the Wimbledon women’s doubles.

The sisters have won six Wimbledon doubles titles together, and 12 singles titles between them — Serena seven and Venus five.Serena returned to tennis June 9, with a women’s doubles match at Queen’s, the prestigious grass-court tournament played ahead of Wimbledon.Williams and Victoria Mboko, the rising 19-year-old Canadian, defeated No.

3 seeds Erin Routliffe of New Zealand and Nicole Melichar-Martinez of the U.S. 7-6(2), 6-2 to reach the quarterfinals.

But after Mboko injured her left knee, which will mean she misses Wimbledon, Williams switched partner for her next tournament, be the Berlin Open in Germany. That is also a grass-court event, and she partnered Karolína Muchová of the Czech Republic, ahead of reuniting with Venus at Wimbledon, which begins June 29.But which other tournaments could Williams play in?

How long will her partnership with Venus, the seven-time Grand Slam singles champion with whom she won 14 major doubles titles and three Olympic golds, last? And what has she had to do to make a tennis return possible?Will Serena Williams return to tennis in singles, as well as doubles?

She will. Williams will play Wimbledon as a singles wild card. The tournament starts Monday June 29, and the draw for the singles is Friday June 26.

How did Serena Williams’ latest match in her comeback go?At the Berlin Tennis Open, a WTA 500 event two rungs below a Grand Slam, Williams played with Muchová against Routliffe, who this time partnered with Mexico’s Giulia