Serena Williams has sailed back into action nearly four years after her last competitive match at the 2022 US Open.<\/p>\n
The 23-time Grand Slam champion comfortably won her first match back at Queen\u2019s alongside Victoria Mboko against Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Erin Routliffe.<\/p>\n
The pair are set to play Laura Siegemund and Leylah Fernandez in the second round, but the American icon already has her eyes on her next tournament.<\/p>\n
The star has also signed up for the doubles at the Berlin Open, which is set to take place between the 13th and 21st June in the German capital.<\/p>\n
Williams reportedly wanted to partner with Coco Gauff in Berlin<\/a>, but that all-star partnership has not come to fruition before the grass court event.<\/p>\n Instead, Williams<\/a> has opted for another WTA Tour<\/a> top 10 player.<\/p>\n Judy Murray spotted something during Serena Williams\u2019 return match which she \u2018absolutely loved\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n Serena Williams +9407 in WTA Rankings after doubles win at Queen\u2019s Club<\/a><\/p>\n According to The Times<\/a>, Williams will be pairing with Karolina Muchova<\/a> at the Berlin Open during the second tournament of her iconic comeback.<\/p>\n Williams had plenty of choice when it came to her doubles partner in Berlin, as many of the biggest stars on the WTA Tour are set for the singles draw.<\/p>\n Aryna Sabalenka<\/a>, Elena Rybakina<\/a>, Jessica Pegula<\/a>, Amanda Anisimova<\/a>, Mirra Andreeva<\/a>, Gauff<\/a>, Elina Svitolina<\/a>, and Mboko<\/a> are all set to play the Berlin Open.<\/p>\n Muchova is not a prolific doubles player, so she has clearly made the decision based on playing with the 23-time Grand Slam champion.<\/p>\n The Czech star has only played one doubles tournament all year, which came at the Brisbane International right at the beginning of the season.<\/p>\n She paired with Priscilla Hon at the Australian event and the duo reached the quarter-finals of the WTA 500 tournament.<\/p>\n They were eventually beaten by Jelena Ostapenko<\/a> and Su-Wei Hsieh, but her new partership with Williams is undoubtedly set for more eyes than her Brisbane matches.<\/p>\n 9000 fans packed into the Andy Murray<\/a> Arena at Queen\u2019s<\/a> for Williams first match and the excitement will no doubt transfer over to Germany for her appearance at the Berlin Open.<\/p>\n After Queen\u2019s and Berlin, Williams is expected to play Wimbledon, but that is yet to be confirmed by the Grand Slam.<\/p>\n She will need to receive a wildcard to play the event, and that is typically decided by Wimbledon in mid-June.<\/p>\n The post Serena Williams\u2019 doubles partner for the Berlin Open has been confirmed<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Serena Williams has sailed back into action nearly four years after her last competitive match at the 2022 US Open. The 23-time Grand Slam champion comfortably won her first match back at Queen\u2019s alongside Victoria Mboko against Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Erin Routliffe. The pair are set to play Laura Siegemund and Leylah Fernandez in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}More Serena Williams news<\/h2>\n