{"id":22270,"date":"2026-06-16T17:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/tennis-queens-in-40s-serena-and-venus-williams-reunite-for-wimbledon-doubles-tennis-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T17:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:08:12","slug":"tennis-queens-in-40s-serena-and-venus-williams-reunite-for-wimbledon-doubles-tennis-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/tennis-queens-in-40s-serena-and-venus-williams-reunite-for-wimbledon-doubles-tennis-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis queens in 40s, Serena and Venus Williams reunite for Wimbledon doubles | Tennis News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131770072,imgsize-145334,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/serena-and-venus-williams-to-play-doubles-together-at-wimbledon.jpg\" alt=\"Tennis queens in 40s, Serena and Venus Williams reunite for Wimbledon doubles\" title=\"Serena Williams, left, and Venus Williams of the US (AP Photo\/Tim Ireland, File)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Serena Williams, left, and Venus Williams of the US (AP Photo\/Tim Ireland, File)\">Serena Williams, left, and Venus Williams of the US (AP Photo\/Tim Ireland, File)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Serena and <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/venus-williams\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Venus Williams<\/a> are set to reunite on the doubles court at <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/wimbledon\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Wimbledon<\/a> after receiving a wild card entry from the All England Club. The tournament begins on June 29, and the sisters will be teaming up again for the first time since the 2022 US Open.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>The legendary pair have won 14 Grand Slam doubles titles together, including six at Wimbledon. Their first and last Wimbledon crowns came in 2000 and 2016, respectively. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>Serena, now 44, recently returned to competitive tennis after nearly four years away, while Venus, who turns 46 this week, has continued to play occasionally.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/>Serena recently won her opening doubles match at Queen&#8217;s Club alongside Victoria Mboko, but the pair had to withdraw later after Mboko suffered a knee injury. <!-- -->She was also scheduled to partner Karolina Muchova in Berlin.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>According to a report from AP, there is still a chance Serena could feature in the singles draw as well. One of the eight women&#8217;s singles wild card spots has been kept vacant and remains listed as &#8220;to be announced&#8221;.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"22\"\/>Several British players and <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/french-open\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">French Open<\/a> finalist Maja Chwalinska have already received invitations.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"26\"\/>Former Grand Slam champions Stan Wawrinka and Grigor Dimitrov were handed men&#8217;s singles wild cards, along with four British players. Wawrinka plans to retire at the end of the season, while Dimitrov is attempting a comeback after injury problems.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"30\"\/>In men&#8217;s doubles, Nick Kyrgios and Alexander Bublik received a wild card. Kyrgios reached the Wimbledon singles final in 2022. Meanwhile, 2021 finalist Matteo Berrettini missed out on a wild card but could still enter the main draw if there are withdrawals before the tournament begins.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"32\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/tennis\/top-stories\/tennis-queens-in-40s-serena-and-venus-williams-reunite-for-wimbledon-doubles\/articleshow\/131769940.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serena Williams, left, and Venus Williams of the US (AP Photo\/Tim Ireland, File) Serena and Venus Williams are set to reunite on the doubles court at Wimbledon after receiving a wild card entry from the All England Club. The tournament begins on June 29, and the sisters will be teaming up again for the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}