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orywireSerena Williams is set to return to professional tennis in doubles at the HSBC Championships at Queen’s Club, partnering Victoria Mboko. The exact match time has not been posted, but the women’s doubles first round is scheduled for June 8-10.
Serena Williams’ comeback is set for the HSBC Championships at Queen’s Club, where she has accepted a doubles wild card and will partner Victoria Mboko. The exact match time has not been posted, but the women’s doubles first round is scheduled to be played June 8-10.
Williams has not played a tour-level match since the 2022 U.S. Open, according to the WTA and Reuters. Her return will come in a WTA 500 grass-court event at The Queen’s Club in London.
The women’s main draw at Queen’s Club runs from Monday, June 8, through Sunday, June 14. The Lawn Tennis Association’s schedule lists women’s doubles first-round matches across the first three main-draw days.
That means Williams’ first match is expected within the June 8-10 window unless the order of play changes. The tournament says the full daily order of play will be available in its Score Centre before the start of each day.
Williams will play doubles with Victoria Mboko, the WTA said. Mboko is listed by the WTA as world No. 9, and the pair received a wild card into a 16-team doubles draw.
For Mboko, the partnership brings a Queen’s Club debut alongside one of the most decorated players in tennis history. Williams has 23 Grand Slam singles titles and 14 Grand Slam women’s doubles titles, all of them won with Venus Williams.
The HSBC Championships are played at The Queen’s Club in West Kensington, London. The event is being staged over two weeks, with the women’s WTA 500 tournament first and the men’s ATP 500 tournament following from June 15-21.
The women’s event began with qualifying on Saturday, June 6. The main draw begins Monday, June 8.
The LTA says coverage of the HSBC Championships is available across BBC TV, BBC iPlayer and digital channels, and on Tennis Channel. For U.S. viewers, the match-specific broadcast window will be easiest to confirm once Williams and Mboko are placed on the daily order of play.
The WTA order-of-play page had not yet shown Williams’ court, opponent or start time at the latest check. Fans looking for the first match should watch for the doubles draw and the daily order of play before Monday’s main-draw matches.
Williams’ exact first opponent, court assignment and start time have not been posted. The checked official sources also did not confirm a singles return at Queen’s Club.
The schedule should be updated when the doubles draw is posted and again when the tournament releases the order of play for the day Williams and Mboko are scheduled to play.
