{"id":246318,"date":"2026-06-02T04:09:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T04:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/serena-williams-makes-major-career-announcement\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T04:09:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T04:09:22","slug":"serena-williams-makes-major-career-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/serena-williams-makes-major-career-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams makes major career announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"ac_119937608\">\n<div class=\"froala-view custom-theme first_text_block\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/tennis\/players\/serena_williams\/25212\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Serena Williams<\/a> is making her rumored<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/tennis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0comeback<\/a> a reality.<\/p>\n<p>Williams is making a comeback at the upcoming HSBC Championships at Queen\u2019s Club in London.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament begins on June 8.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Williams will be taking part as a doubles player with Canadian Victoria Mboko.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"ac_119937610\">\n<div class=\"froala-view custom-theme \">\n<p>While Williams did not directly confirm the news, she posted a video to social media that more or less did so indirectly.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"ac_119937612\">\n<div class=\"froala-view custom-theme \">\n<p>Comeback rumors have been floating around Williams for months now. Those were sparked, in part, because of her taking <a href=\"https:\/\/larrybrownsports.com\/tennis\/serena-williams-sparks-comeback-rumors-with-her-latest-move\/729529\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">concrete steps<\/a> to make herself eligible to play again. Her last tournament was the 2022 U.S. Open, though even then, she would not completely <a href=\"https:\/\/larrybrownsports.com\/tennis\/serena-williams-answer-possible-comeback\/603146\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shut the door<\/a> on possibly playing again.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, 44, remains one of the most decorated women\u2019s tennis players ever. She had stepped away from the sport to focus on her family, and she had her second child with husband Alexis Ohanian in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Queen\u2019s Club serves as a traditional warm-up to Wimbledon. Whether Williams plans to try to compete there remains to be seen, though it would appear highly unlikely that she would attempt a comeback just for a one-off tournament appearance.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/tennis\/articles\/serena_williams_makes_major_career_announcement\/s1_127_43906655\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serena Williams is making her rumored\u00a0comeback a reality. Williams is making a comeback at the upcoming HSBC Championships at Queen\u2019s Club in London. The tournament begins on June 8.\u00a0 Williams will be taking part as a doubles player with Canadian Victoria Mboko. While Williams did not directly confirm the news, she posted a video to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":246319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-246318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}