Serena Williams

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...