Serena Williams

July 1, 2026 10:07 AM

Serena’s Wimbledon comeback fizzles out in first round

Serena Williams showed flashes of brilliance before her much anticipated return to competitive action after a four-year absence fizzled out in a 6-3 6-7(6) 6-3 defeat to little-known Australian Maya Joint in the Wimbledon first round. There were high hopes that the 44-year-old would become the oldest woman to win a singles match at the All England Club since Martina Navratilova achieved the feat aged 47 in 2004, but Joint had other ideas. The 20-year-old Joint, who was not even born when Willi...

June 22, 2026 5:09 PM

Serena Williams handed Wimbledon singles wildcard

American great Serena Williams will make a stunning return to singles at this year's Wimbledon after being handed the final wildcard by the All England Club on Sunday. The seven-time Wimbledon singles champion was already assured of a return to the championships for the first time in four years after accepting a doubles wildcard with sister Venus. "This is not a drill," the tournament wrote in a post on its Instagram account. The announcement that the 44-year-old mother of two will play singl...

June 10, 2026 10:46 AM

Serena Williams makes winning return at Queen’s Club after nearly four years away

Serena Williams stole the show at Queen's Club on Tuesday as the American icon marked her eagerly awaited return to competitive action with victory nearly four years after her last match. The 44-year-old mother of two daughters announced last week she had taken a wildcard to partner Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko in the grasscourt WTA event and her re-appearance on a London lawn has been the talk of sport ever since. She did not disappoint either, showing minimal signs of rust and plent...

January 30, 2026 12:18 PM

Serena Williams fuels comeback speculation with TV interview

Serena Williams has tennis players buzzing about a possible return after she playfully dodged questions about re-entering the sport's anti-doping testing pool during a television appearance that left more questions than answers. The 23-times Grand Slam champion raised eyebrows last December when she rejoined the tennis anti-doping testing pool, though she denied at the time that the move signaled a comeback to the sport she dominated for nearly two decades. But her coy responses during a Wedne...

March 26, 2025 11:49 AM

Tennis: Djokovic trounces Musetti to reach Miami Open quarters

Novak Djokovic won 12 of the last 14 games of his match against Lorenzo Musetti to crush the Italian 6-2 6-2 and move into the quarter-finals of the Miami Open in his best performance since the Australian Open. The momentum in the rain-delayed match seemed to swing in Djokovic's favour when he complained to the chair umpire in the opening set over a serve clock warning. That frustration seemed to spark the Serbian, who broke the next game for a 4-2 lead and never looked back in the presence of...

August 6, 2024 5:12 PM

Paris restaurant apologies to Serena Williams, says was fully booked

A luxury Parisian hotel has apologised to tennis great Serena Williams after she complained, in a social media post seen by millions, that she and her family were turned away from its restaurant on Monday. "Yikes @peninsulaparis I've been denied access to rooftop to eat in a empty restaurant of nicer places but never with my kids. Always a first," Williams said on X. Williams, a four-times Olympic gold medallist, was one of the Olympic flame's torchbearers during the Paris Games' opening cerem...