{"id":3721,"date":"2026-06-21T20:07:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T20:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=3721"},"modified":"2026-06-21T20:07:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T20:07:43","slug":"serena-williams-will-play-singles-at-wimbledon-after-accepting-a-wild-card-invitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=3721","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams will play singles at Wimbledon after accepting a wild card invitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>LONDON (AP) \u2014 Serena Williams will play singles at Wimbledon after accepting a wild card invitation, the All England Club announced Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=3719\">7 killed and dozens injured following series of weekend shootings in Chicago<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The move comes after the 44-year-old Williams recently returned to competition in doubles after nearly four years away from professional tennis.<\/p>\n<p>And it means that Williams will play both singles and doubles at Wimbledon after already accepting a wild card for the doubles competition with older sister Venus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not a drill,\u201d Wimbledon said on its social media accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Serena\u2019s last singles match was a loss to Ajla Tomljanovic in the third round of the 2022 U.S. Open. At the time, she said she didn\u2019t want to use the word \u201cretiring\u201d and instead declared that she was \u201cevolving\u201d away from tennis.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=3717\">Live scoreboard: UNC baseball tries to keep title hopes alive against Oklahoma in second game of 2026 Men\u2019s College World Series championship<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Serena has won 23 Grand Slam titles in singles, including seven at Wimbledon. She\u2019s also won 14 Grand Slams in doubles, all with Venus, and six of them at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>Wimbledon starts in eight days.<\/p>\n<p>Serena won a doubles match with partner Victoria Mboko at Queen\u2019s Club last week but then the pair had to withdraw after Mboko injured her knee in a singles match.<\/p>\n<p>In another doubles match at the Berlin Open on Tuesday, Serena and partner Karolina Muchova were beaten by Giuliana Olmos and Erin Routliffe.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=3715\">Kansas town embraces Algeria at the World Cup as the nation itself grapples with human rights record<\/a><\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP tennis: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (AP) \u2014 Serena Williams will play singles at Wimbledon after accepting a wild card&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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