Serena Williams will make her Grand Slam return at Wimbledon later this month.
Along with her sister Venus, Williams has been granted a wild card entry to the Wimbledon women’s doubles draw, the All England Tennis Club announced Tuesday morning. The 23-time Grand Slam singles winner, seven of which came at Wimbledon, last played at the grasscourt tournament in 2022.
Williams, 44, made her official return to professional tennis earlier this month at the HSBC Championships, a WTA 500 event known as a Wimbledon warmup. She played in one doubles match—a June 9 win alongside world No. 9 singles player Victoria Mboko.
However, Mboko, 19, sustained a knee injury the next day during singles action that forced her to drop out of the competition, prematurely ending Williams’s doubles run. Williams is set to play another doubles event Tuesday, teaming up with world No. 10 singles player Karolína Muchová at the Berlin Open.
Williams has won 16 doubles Grand Slam titles—14 in women’s doubles and two in mixed doubles. The Williams sisters won six Wimbledon doubles titles together between 2000 and 2016.
