{"id":74575,"date":"2026-06-07T12:55:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T17:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/serena-williams-plays-down-potential-singles-return-before-doubles-at-queens\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T12:55:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T17:55:35","slug":"serena-williams-plays-down-potential-singles-return-before-doubles-at-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/serena-williams-plays-down-potential-singles-return-before-doubles-at-queens\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams plays down potential singles return before doubles at Queen\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Williams, 44, returns to tennis for first time since 2022<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>\u2018I don\u2019t have anything to prove, everything is a gain\u2019<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Serena Williams has said her professional tennis return at the age of 44 is about \u201cjust having fun,\u201d insisting winning is \u201cnot important\u201d after lifting 23 grand slam singles titles during a hugely successful career.<\/p>\n<p>Williams will play doubles alongside the Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko at Queen\u2019s Club this week in her first competitive outing since stepping away from tennis in 2022. Although she has committed to playing doubles in Berlin afterwards, her future beyond that remains uncertain. Meetings to determine the first batch of Wimbledon wildcards begin soon but when asked whether she intends to return to singles competition, Williams said: \u201cI can\u2019t say yeah, I can\u2019t say no. Right now, no.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jun\/07\/serena-williams-queens-club-doubles-potential-singles-return-tennis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Williams, 44, returns to tennis for first time since 2022 \u2018I don\u2019t have anything to prove, everything is a gain\u2019 Serena Williams has said her professional tennis return at the age of 44 is about \u201cjust having fun,\u201d insisting winning is \u201cnot important\u201d after lifting 23 grand slam singles titles during a hugely successful career. &#8230; <a title=\"Serena Williams plays down potential singles return before doubles at Queen\u2019s\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/serena-williams-plays-down-potential-singles-return-before-doubles-at-queens\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Serena Williams plays down potential singles return before doubles at Queen\u2019s\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}