Overview
- Wimbledon organizers have granted Serena and Venus Williams a wildcard to play together in the Ladies’ Doubles main draw.
- Serena recently returned to official competition in doubles at Queen’s Club, where she and Victoria Mboko won a match before Mboko suffered a ligament injury and withdrew.
- Serena is scheduled to play doubles in Berlin with Karolina Muchova as she builds toward Wimbledon participation.
- Neither Serena nor Venus appears on the list of women’s singles wildcard recipients and one women’s singles wildcard remained unassigned at the time of the announcement.
- The pairing revives one of tennis’s most successful doubles teams — 14 Grand Slam doubles titles and three Olympic golds — and continues Wimbledon’s practice of using wildcards to attract high-profile, veteran players.