{"id":75164,"date":"2026-06-21T15:55:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T20:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/21\/serena-williams-to-make-wimbledon-singles-comeback-after-being-handed-wildcard\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T15:55:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T20:55:25","slug":"serena-williams-to-make-wimbledon-singles-comeback-after-being-handed-wildcard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/21\/serena-williams-to-make-wimbledon-singles-comeback-after-being-handed-wildcard\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams to make Wimbledon singles comeback after being handed wildcard"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Seven-time champion, now 44, continues on-court return<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>She will also compete in doubles with sister Venus<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Serena Williams will make a stunning return to singles competition at Wimbledon after being announced as the tournament\u2019s final wildcard on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Wimbledon will mark Williams\u2019s first singles appearance in nearly four years after retiring from the sport at the 2022 US Open and it marks a dramatic escalation in her comeback.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jun\/21\/serena-williams-wimbledon-singles-comeback-handed-wildcard-tennis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven-time champion, now 44, continues on-court return She will also compete in doubles with sister Venus Serena Williams will make a stunning return to singles competition at Wimbledon after being announced as the tournament\u2019s final wildcard on Sunday. Wimbledon will mark Williams\u2019s first singles appearance in nearly four years after retiring from the sport at &#8230; <a title=\"Serena Williams to make Wimbledon singles comeback after being handed wildcard\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/21\/serena-williams-to-make-wimbledon-singles-comeback-after-being-handed-wildcard\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Serena Williams to make Wimbledon singles comeback after being handed wildcard\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75164","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\/75164","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=75164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}