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Serena Williams and Venus Williams are both back in the fold during this grass court season and they are both hoping to receive a Wimbledon wildcard.

Serena Williams returned at Queen’s to play doubles with Victoria Mboko and the pair won the American’s first match in nearly four years against Erin Routliffe and Nicole Melichar-Martinez.

Their partnership was curtailed by Mboko’s injury – which will also keep her out of Wimbledon – but Serena is set to play doubles again in Berlin.

She will partner with Karolina Muchova as she looks to continue her comeback and many are expecting her to receive a Wimbledon wildcard.

Venus Williams, meanwhile, has played sporadically throughout the year, alongside the likes of Katie Boulter and Leylah Fernandez, and she will return to doubles action at Bad Homburg.

Venus will play alongside Alexandra Eala at the German event and she will likely be looking for a Wimbledon singles wildcard at the Grand Slam.

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They both could be in luck for the singles draw as Britain’s Fran Jones will no longer be in need of a wildcard, freeing up another entrant.

Jones has earned her way into the main draw direct Wimbledon as Veronika Kudermetova has withdrawn from the Grand Slam with an ongoing illness.

She will joins Emma Raducanu and Boulter as direct entrants in the main draw, meaning she will not take away one of the eight wildcards available.

That could be monumental for some of the non-British players who will be hoping to receive a wildcard at this year’s event.

The likes of Harriet Dart, Katie Swan, Alicia Dudeney, Mika Stojsavljevic, and Mingge Xu all currently sit inside the top 300 and will be hoping for a wildcard, but that would still leave three names.

If Serena and Venus are both angling for a wildcard for the singles draw at Wimbledon, it’s looking increasingly likely that they will receive one.

It could also open up the avenue for Maja Chwalińska to receive a wildcard, which would be a very nice reward for the Polish star who reached the Roland Garros final.

The Pole is up to World No. 21 in the WTA Tour rankings due to her exploits in Paris, but she was well outside the top 100 when the entry list was crafted for Wimbledon.

The Grand Slam could be about to buck tradition, as they have often handout wildcards exclusively to British players in recent years. Petra Kvitova was the only non-British star to receive a wildcard at last year’s event and that was part of her retirement year.

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It’s fair to say this year’s Queen Club Championships has been marred by several unfortunate incidents throughout the WTA Tour’s tournament.

Victoria Mboko suffered a nasty fall in her match against Karolina Pliskova, which forced her out of her doubles match with Serena Williams, as well as Wimbledon.

Thursday’s order of play was completely cancelled due to typical English rain, which has had a difficult effect on the rest of the grass court tournament.

The event has been forced to play catch-up with several stars having to play twice on Friday’s order of play, including Elena Rybakina and Katie Boulter.

It worked out terrifically for Boulter, but less for Rybakina, as she was handed a surprise defeat at the hands of the British No. 1.

Boulter defeated Jaqueline Cristian and Rybakina on the same day to reach the second WTA Tour semi-final of her season, following her victory at the Ostrava Open earlier this year.

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With play severely backed-up, Emma Raducanu’s quarter-final clash with Kamilla Rakhimova was not able to be played on the Andy Murray Arena.

That means Raducanu will be forced to play twice during Saturday, 13th June’s order of play, while her potential semi-final opponent, Iva Jovic, will be relatively fresh.

It seems utterly bizarre that the Queen’s organisers didn’t shift around the order of play to get Raducanu’s match played on an outside court, but The Guardian seems to have an answer as to why.

The publication said: “Raducanu should have been scheduled to compete on Court 1, the second court, but broadcast contracts at Queen’s prohibit the second court from being shown on any live broadcast, meaning the tournament organisers held out hope that they would arrive on court in time.”

While fans, both at home and on the Andy Murray Arena, would have liked to see Raducanu’s last eight clash with Rakhimova, the UK tournament should have just bitten the bullet and put her on court one.

It would have levelled the playing field with Jovic ahead of a potential meeting in the semi-final and a British player should absolutely receive that priority.

Instead, Raducanu could be forced to play up to six sets in one day as she looks to end her trophy drought, which dates back to her maiden win at the 2021 US Open.

Raducanu has shown real promise on the grass at Queen’s this week and it her exit could come down to an administration error on the part of the tournament.

With no players from the WTA Tour top 15 left in the event, that would be incredibly disappointing for the British No. 1.

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Carlos Alcaraz’s early withdrawal from Wimbledon was a major blow, and the grass-court Grand Slam has now been hit by another big name pulling out.

The start of the 2026 Wimbledon Championships is still over two weeks away, with the 139th edition of the historic tournament set to be held from 29 June to 12 July.

By Thursday, there were five players who had pulled out of Wimbledon across both the men’s and women’s singles entry lists, and that number has now risen to seven.

Following Alcaraz, Victoria Mboko — the WTA world No 9 — is the second top 10 player to withdraw from the year’s third major.

The Canadian star’s withdrawal came after she was forced to retire in her opening singles match at the Queen’s Club Championships on Wednesday.

Mboko hurt her left knee in a nasty fall, and she has since revealed she sustained an MCL injury.

“Unfortunately, my fall on Wednesday caused an injury to the MCL on my left knee, which sadly means I will miss the remainder of the grass season,” the 19-year-old wrote on Instagram.

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“This unfortunately means Wimbledon too, a tournament I had been so looking forward to playing this year.

“I am receiving the best medical care and my team and I are focused on a return to court as soon as possible. Thank you to everyone who has reached out and sent messages of support, I am so grateful to you all!”

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• Carlos Alcaraz (world No 2) – replaced by Jan Choinski
• Valentin Vacherot (world No 20) – replaced by Sho Shimabukuro
• Arthur Cazaux (world No 81) – replaced by Alex Molcan

World No 2 Alcaraz won Wimbledon in 2023 and 2024, while he was a runner-up at the All England Club to Jannik Sinner in 2025.

The 23-year-old Spaniard withdrew from Wimbledon over a month before the start date due to a right wrist injury that has prevented him from playing since the Barcelona Open in April.

“My recovery is going well, and I feel much better, but unfortunately, I’m still not ready to be able to play, and that’s why I have to withdraw from the grass-court swing at Queen’s and Wimbledon,” the seven-time major champion said last month.

Monegasque star Valentin Vacherot and Frenchman Arthur Cazaux are the other men to withdraw from Wimbledon.

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• Victoria Mboko (world No 9) – replaced by Darja Vidmanova
• Hailey Baptiste (world No 30) – replaced by Hanne Vandewinkel
• Varvara Gracheva (world No 71) – replaced Sinja Kraus
• Sonay Kartal (world No 72) – replaced by Paula Badosa

Before Mboko’s withdrawal, Hailey Baptiste, Varvara Gracheva and Sonay Kartal all pulled out of the women’s singles event due to injuries.

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Victoria Mboko has shared an update after it was revealed she had withdrawn from Wimbledon due to the injury she suffered at the Queen’s Club Championships.

World No 9 Mboko teamed up with tennis icon Serena Williams in doubles at Queen’s Club, and the pair won their opening match on Tuesday. It was Williams’ first match since the 2022 US Open.

The following day, Mboko was forced to retire in her opening singles match at the grass-court WTA 500 event against Karolina Pliskova.

When Pliskova was serving with a 6-2, 3-4 lead in the second set, Mboko slipped on the grass and suffered a nasty fall. She was unable to continue having injured her left knee.

The Canadian pulled out of the doubles event before her and Williams’ scheduled second round match on Thursday.

On Friday, Mboko withdrew from Wimbledon, which is due to start in just over two weeks.

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In a post on Instagram, Mboko revealed she had sustained an MCL injury as she confirmed she would miss the rest of the grass season.

“Hi everyone — I wanted to provide a quick update given everything that has happened in the past 36 hours,” Mboko wrote.

“Unfortunately, my fall on Wednesday caused an injury to the MCL on my left knee, which sadly means I will miss the remainder of the grass season. This unfortunately means Wimbledon too, a tournament I had been so looking forward to playing this year.

“I am receiving the best medical care and my team and I are focused on a return to court as soon as possible. Thank you to everyone who has reached out and sent messages of support, I am so grateful to you all!”

The 19-year-old went on to thank Williams for the opportunity to play doubles with her.

“Lastly, thank you @serenawilliams for giving me this incredible opportunity to play alongside you,” Mboko added.

“I learnt so much from you and am so sorry our tournament came to an end prematurely, but I hope we can play together again soon and finish what we started.”

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Emma Raducanu has reacted after she delivered an impressive performance to beat Sorana Cirstea in straight sets at the 2026 Queen’s Club Championships.

World No 42 Raducanu downed 18th-ranked Cirstea 6-4, 6-2 in the second round at the grass-court WTA 500 tournament in London.

The British No 1 is through to the quarter-finals at Queen’s Club for the second straight year, and she will face world No 78 Kamilla Rakhimova later today.

Raducanu raced into a 4-0 lead before holding off a fightback from Cirstea to seal the opening set.

The 23-year-old then broke twice as she dominated the second set to seal a convincing win against an in-form opponent.

With Raducanu leading 4-0 in the first set, Annabel Croft — who was commentating on the match for BBC — said that the Brit was under Cirstea’s skin.

“Well, she (Cirstea) looks pretty dejected right now,” said the former British No 1. “I feel as if Raducanu, psychologically, has got under her skin.”

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Raducanu’s win against Cirstea avenged a 0-6, 2-6 loss to the 36-year-old Romanian in the Cluj-Napoca final in February.

In her on-court interview, Raducanu said: “It feels incredible to have come out and played as I did today against Sorana. She’s been a player who, this year, has been in incredible form, had some amazing wins, reached a really high ranking.

“And earlier on in the year, she beat me, but I’m really pleased that I could kind of get her back at home, as well (laughs).”

The 2021 US Open winner added: “I think I played a really high level. I knew that I had to playing Sorana. I had to go out there and play aggressively and dictate, because otherwise if I didn’t, she would do that.

“And as soon as I kind of took my foot off the gas a little bit, or didn’t execute in the first set, she was coming back.

“But yeah, I think straight from the get-go I actually I put a really good game on the court, and I’m really pleased that I’m able to play another match here.”

After the match, Croft gave her verdict on Raducanu’s performance.

“She’s taken it up a notch from her opening round,” assessed the former world No 24.

“I thought that she was going to be given a much bigger test from Cirstea, which she was, but she sort of matched it and kept on rising her own levels, and struck the ball with such authority, knew when to be patient and build the points, and knew when to step up and go for it.

“Great returns of serve, as we always say. And some really, really decent serving, getting a lot of free points off it.

“And when the going got tough and the rallies were extended, she did well.”

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The fight for a Wimbledon wildcard has arguably never been this hotly-contested on both the men and women’s side of the draw as several top players vye for automatic entry into the main draw.

The grass court Grand Slam tends to save their wildcards for local players, with 15 out of 16 names last year representing Great Britain.

Petra Kvitova, who has already confirmed her retirement, was the only non-Brit to gain a wildcard at the Grand Slam for the 2025 event, who was beaten in the first round by Emma Navarro.

In the men’s draw, especially, there looks to be several big name players looking for a wildcard as they currently sit outside the top 100 of the ATP Tour rankings.

Jack Draper, Nick Kyrgios, Stan Wawrinka, Matteo Berrettini, and Grigor Dimitrov will all have to go through qualifying this year if they do not receive a wildcard.

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While Draper is undoubtedly set to receive a wildcard, there is another British tennis star who has all-but-confirmed he will also gain instant access.

Dan Evans has confirmed he will retire after Wimbledon, bringing an end to his two-decade long career at his home Grand Slam.

It would be very surprising to see Evans miss out on a Wimbledon wildcard due to his impending retirement, but he is low in the pecking order currently.

There are currently 10 British players who would need a wildcard to enter Wimbledon that are currently ranked higher than Dan Evans, so it could be a real fight for the Brits and the high-profile names.

Arthur Fery, Billy Harris, Jack Pinnington-Jones, Toby Samuel, Liam Broady, Felix Gill, Harry Wendelken, and Oliver Crawford would all have been a higher priority for Wimbledon were it not for Evans’ retirement.

With just eight wildcards to give out, and Wimbledon’s tendency to give them to British star, some very big names could be set to miss out.

It’s hard to see Wimbledon handing out wildcards to Kyrgios and Berrettini, despite the fact they have both previously reached the final.

Berrettini has proved he still has Grand Slam pedigree by reaching the Roland Garros quarter-finals, while Kyrgios picked up a grass court win in Stuttgart recently.

Wawrinka is the most likely non-British star to receive a wildcard from Wimbledon, but nothing is guaranteed and the Swiss star will surely be sweating on the decision.

Elsewhere, Dimitrov’s chances of receiving a wildcard are likely very low, despite the fact he was a set away from reaching the quarter-finals at last year’s event.

No matter what happens, there are bound to be some very disappointed players who miss out on the Wimbledon main draw this year.

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Serena Williams’ return to tennis has led to plenty of speculation about the 23-time Grand Slam champion returning to Wimbledon this year.

Williams returned to action at Queen’s to play doubles alongside Victoria Mboko, which reached an unfortunate ending due to an injury the Canadian suffered during her singles match with Karolina Pliskova.

The American is next set to play the doubles at the Berlin Open, alongside Karolina Muchova, with many expecting Williams to receive a Wimbledon wildcard this year.

Wimbledon might have already leaked their Williams decision, but now they have released a more official response about whether the American icon will receive a wildcard.

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“I can’t answer that question, but I guess what I can say is we can all see how much excitement Serena being back on a tennis court and particularly on a grass court has created, and so one can only imagine what that would be like at the championships,” said All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) chief Sally Bolton.

She continued: “The wildcard committee will formally make their decisions next week and we’ll be communicating those, but she has certainly created a fantastic buzz and that’s exciting for the sport.”

One thing we know for sure, however, is that Williams will not be playing doubles with Mboko at Wimbledon this year.

The 19-year-old’s injury is severe enough to cause her to miss the Grand Slam and she has already withdrawn from the iconic grass court event.

Mboko has already dropped off the entry list for Wimbledon and she has been replaced by World No. 112, Darja Vidmanova.

Whether this means Williams will continue to work alongside Muchova, or find a new partner, is anyone’s guess at this point.

She could reignite her doubles partnership with sister Venus Williams, who she has not played with since her final appearance at the US Open.

The sister pairing played one last time at the 2022 event as they bowed out in their first round match against Linda Noskova and Lucie Hradecka.

Venus has returned sporadically throughout the year to play doubles at events such as the Madrid Open and the Australian Open, alongside the likes of Katie Boulter, Leylah Fernandez, Peyton Stearns, and Ekaterina Alexandrova.

She is set to gain a new doubles partner at Bad Homburg, the German grass court event ahead of Wimbledon, as she plays with Alexandra Eala for the first time in her career.

Much like Serena, Venus will need a wildcard to play Wimbledon, which is set to be decided by mid-June at the earliest.

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Former world No 3 Ivan Ljubicic does not think Alexander Zverev’s 2026 French Open title will “change much” as he said the German “won a match he should have won” in the final.

Zverev defeated Flavio Cobolli 6-1, 4-6, 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-1 in a tension-filled championship match lasting four hours and 16 minutes at Roland Garros last week.

The 29-year-old’s victory in Paris ended his wait for his maiden Grand Slam title after he had previously lost in three major finals.

Zverev, who is the world No 3, became the first German man to win the French Open in the Open Era and the first to secure a major in singles since Boris Becker in 1996.

Ljubicic assessed that Zverev’s triumph “doesn’t represent a technical or tactical transformation” and suggested it will not impact his ability to challenge Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz.

“I don’t think it will change much. Today, compared to the past, the result has changed for Sascha, but not his style of play,” Croatian was quoted as saying by We Love Tennis.

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“An important victory, certainly, but one that doesn’t represent a technical or tactical transformation for the German.

“He won a match he should have won, but Sinner and Alcaraz remain stronger.

“He will always be the first of the second-stringers, the one who, on the court, prefers to wait, but who, when he attacks, gives you no respite. The outcome of matches doesn’t always depend on him.”

Ljubicic, who won 10 ATP Tour singles titles during a career spanning from 1998 to 2012, coached tennis icon Roger Federer from 2015 until his retirement in 2022.

Andre Agassi issued a similar verdict after Alexander Zverev’s French Open win

Speaking on TNT Sports’ Roland Garros coverage, Agassi admitted that winning his maiden Grand Slam title changed “nothing” for him in terms of pressure.

“You can win a Slam… does it really change your life? You can say it, it’s easy to say, but I don’t know if it does,” said the eight-time major winner.

“We have had a lot of one Slam wonders, that have done some incredible — I’m sure they’re thrilled they won.

“When I finally got over the finish line [and won my first Grand Slam], I was let in on a dirty little secret: that winning changes nothing.

“You are gonna to have that pressure again if you have more expectations from yourself. So you gotta deal with it, you gotta bring it on Sunday like you did at the start of the tournament.”

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A sports finance expert believes Wimbledon’s decision to increase prize money by 20% is a “smart” move but won’t settle the ongoing revenue share debate.

On Thursday, it was revealed that Wimbledon would increase its total prize money pot to £64.2m, up from £53.5m from 2025.

The All England Club announced that this year’s men’s and women’s singles champions will earn £3.6m each, up from £3m, and the first-round losers will now receive £80,000 – £14,000 more than in 2025.

However, the players reportedly wanted a pot of around £70m and a tournament revenue share of 16%. Wimbledon, though, have ostensibly capped that at 15.15%.

Aryna Sabalenka was open to the idea of a Grand Slam boycott after French Open figureheads dropped the tournament’s revenue share to under 15%, with Jannik Sinner also saying players don’t get the respect they deserved.

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Prior to the French Open, Professor Rob Wilson told Tennis365 that top players needed to put on a united front to push through their demands.

He correctly predicted that there would be an uptick in prize money at SW19 and now he has delivered a fresh take on this thorny topic.

He said, “I think it’s a smart move from Wimbledon in the short term. A 20% increase is hard to dismiss, especially with first-round losers going from £66,000 to £80,000. That’s meaningful for a lot of players, not just the top names.

“The more interesting bit is the revenue share. If they’re effectively at just over 15%, that’s progress, but it’s still some way off what the players are ultimately pushing for at 22% (which is what the Masters events on the ATP and WTA Tours provide).

“So I can see why this might take some heat out of the situation for now, but I don’t think it settles the broader debate. My guess is it probably reduces the likelihood of any immediate protests or coordinated action during Wimbledon itself, because the optics of rejecting a 20% rise would be tricky.

“But if revenues keep growing and players feel they’re not getting a proportional share, I suspect the pressure comes back pretty quickly. So overall, smart politically from Wimbledon, buys them some breathing room, but I’d be surprised if this is the end of the conversation.”

Professor Kieran Maguire, who runs The Price of Football podcast, stated that Wimbledon will still be in a strong financial situation despite significantly increasing the prize money on offer.

He told Tennis365, “The AELTC (LTD), which funds Wimbledon, generated revenue of £423m in 2025. That compares to any Premier League football club and is just behind the ‘Big Six’ (Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United, Manchester City, Tottenham).

“Unlike football, it generated a handsome profit of £54m, which was mainly then distributed to the good causes of the grassroots of the LTA itself.

“The LTA does have a lot of capacity to increase the amount of pay-outs to players because the accounts do look very comfortable. There was cash of over £47m in the bank account.

“These accounts would be the envy of many other governing bodies in sports. Whilst it is a substantial increase in the potential pay-out to players, in order to keep in line with the other Grand Slams it won’t be a problem.

“It continues to be an event which is incredibly popular with broadcasters, sponsors and the paying public and those three revenue sources will be more than enough to pay the players the increased costs of participation in terms of prize money.”

The AELTC paid the Lawn Tennis Association £48.1m last year. This is part of an agreement where they pass on 90% of its profits to the governing body.

Despite calls for higher percentages when it comes to revenue shares, the chair of the All England Club, Deborah Jevans, said that wasn’t a helpful metric.

She told BBC Sport, “We don’t look at percentages, we don’t actually believe that is the right metric. It is one metric that is based purely on revenue and doesn’t take into account any costs and we cannot run a business in that way.

“We have expenses – we have spoken about infrastructure and investment in grass court tennis. You cannot run a sustainable business, and we have nearly been around for 150 years, just by looking at revenue. That is just plainly wrong.”

Discussions are likely to continue ahead of the US Open announcing its prize money pot later this summer.

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Serena Williams looks set to return to Wimbledon this year after an apparent slip-up from the tournament’s social media team.

A decade on from her last triumph at SW19, the 44-year-old may be back at the grass court Grand Slam in just a matter of weeks.

The 23-time major winner made her long-awaited return to tennis this week when she played doubles alongside Victoria Mboko at Queen’s Club.

That comeback was cut short on Thursday after Mboko withdrew from the tournament due to a knee injury.

Serena is set to continue her grass court schedule next week in Berlin, where the veteran is reportedly primed to play alongside Karolina Muchova.

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While she herself hasn’t spoken about whether or not she will compete at Wimbledon, the tournament’s social media team may have jumped the gun on that news.

Some eagle-eyed tennis fans took a screengrab of a now deleted Wimbledon Instagram comment, which has since spread over social media.

The post read, “Wishing @vickymboko a speedy recovery. See you at SW19 for The Championships, Serena.”

 

not surprising but this reply from Wimbledon all but confirms Serena’s getting a WC pic.twitter.com/v21hehjoo0

— Christian’s Court (@christianscourt) June 11, 2026

This may have been on the cards after the chair of the All England Club (AELTC), Deborah Jevans, welcomed the idea of the seven-time Wimbledon champion returning to SW19.

She told BBC Sport, “Of course, I would be delighted and excited if that were to happen. It was fantastic seeing her hit balls over the net at Queen’s.

“We have our wildcard committee coming up, but I am sure it will take into account her success in the championships when making that decision.”

For the time being, Serena is working her way back into the sports with doubles. However, players, pundits and fans alike are eager to see if she will play singles again.

The last time Serena played a competitive singles match was back at the 2022 US Open, where the American lost in the third round.

Whether she plays singles again this year remains to be seen.

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