Serena Williams has announced her withdrawal from the Wimbledon ladies\u2019 doubles, where she had been set to compete alongside her sister, Venus.<\/p>\n
The American recently made her return to professional singles at SW19, narrowly losing to Australian Maya Joint in a hard-fought three-set match.<\/p>\n
Williams had been expected to partner Venus in the women\u2019s doubles, with the legendary sisters having previously won seven Wimbledon doubles titles together at the All England Club.<\/p>\n
However, she has been forced to withdraw from the event after sustaining a knee injury during her singles match against Joint.<\/p>\n
Williams took to Instagram to announce the heartbreaking news.<\/p>\n
Serena Williams\u2019 former coach responds after star accused of giving \u2018cold\u2019 handshake during Wimbledon loss<\/a><\/p>\n Wimbledon offered strong response to Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka\u2019s boycott plans<\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n A post shared by Serena Williams (@serenawilliams)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u201cI\u2019m heartbroken to have to withdraw from doubles,\u201d she began.<\/p>\n \u201cComing back to compete again has been a gift, and the opportunity to play alongside @Venuseswilliams once more meant the world to me.<\/p>\n \u201cI did everything I could but unfortunately my knee just isn\u2019t ready to compete.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m especially grateful to tournament director, Jamie Baker, and the entire tournament team for giving me every opportunity to recover. Thank you to the fans for your incredible support and for making this comeback so meaningful<\/p>\n \u201cAll I can say is stay tuned to a city near you<\/p>\n \u201cThe photo of the syringes is the fluid they drained from my knee after my singles match \u2013 yikes! The good news is that my knee shouldn\u2019t swell or collect that much fluid again.<\/p>\n \u201cThe bad news is that, as hard as I tried, I wasn\u2019t able to be ready for doubles.\u201d<\/p>\n Williams\u2019 next tournament is yet to be confirmed, though she is widely expected to receive wildcard entries into the upcoming events in Cincinnati and New York as she continues her return to the WTA Tour.<\/p>\n The sisters last competed together at the 2022 US Open, where they were beaten 7-6(5), 6-4 in the first round by Lucie Hradecka and Linda Noskova. That tournament marked the beginning of Serena\u2019s much-publicised \u2018evolution\u2019 away from professional tennis, before she announced her return earlier this season.<\/p>\n Before this year\u2019s Wimbledon, Williams also enjoyed a successful return to doubles at Queen\u2019s Club Championships, where she partnered Victoria Mboko to upset third seeds Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Erin Routliffe 7-6(2), 6-2 in the opening round.<\/p>\n The pair were forced to withdraw before their second-round match after Mboko suffered an injury during her singles campaign, bringing their promising run to an early end.<\/p>\n Williams then teamed up with Karol\u00edna Muchova at the Berlin Open. However, the duo were defeated 6-4, 6-4 in the first round by Routliffe and Giuliana Olmos, leaving Wimbledon as their next planned appearance together before Williams\u2019 latest injury setback.<\/p>\n The post Serena and Venus Williams denied Wimbledon reunion as injury forces withdrawal<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Serena Williams has announced her withdrawal from the Wimbledon ladies\u2019 doubles, where she had been set to compete alongside her sister, Venus. The American recently made her return to professional singles at SW19, narrowly losing to Australian Maya Joint in a hard-fought three-set match. Williams had been expected to partner Venus in the women\u2019s doubles, […]<\/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-2435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435","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=2435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n