{"id":113502,"date":"2026-06-01T15:35:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/williams-44-set-to-return-4-years-after-playing-her-last-competitive-match\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T15:35:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:35:52","slug":"williams-44-set-to-return-4-years-after-playing-her-last-competitive-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/williams-44-set-to-return-4-years-after-playing-her-last-competitive-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams, 44, set to return 4 years after playing her last competitive match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serena Williams will return to competitive tennis for the first time since the 2022 US Open after accepting a wild card for the women&#8217;s doubles event at Queen&#8217;s Club. The 23-time Grand Slam champion, 44, is expected to partner Victoria Mboko. Williams fuelled excitement with a social media teaser, while her comeback follows her re-entry into tennis&#8217; anti-doping programme last year.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serena Williams will return to competitive tennis for the first time since the 2022 US Open after accepting a wild card for the women&#8217;s doubles event at Queen&#8217;s Club. The 23-time Grand Slam champion, 44, is expected to partner Victoria Mboko. Williams fuelled excitement with a social media teaser, while her comeback follows her re-entry&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/williams-44-set-to-return-4-years-after-playing-her-last-competitive-match\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Williams, 44, set to return 4 years after playing her last competitive match<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":113503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}