LONDON (AP) \u2014\u00a0Serena\u00a0and\u00a0Venus Williams\u00a0are bringing their doubles partnership back at\u00a0Wimbledon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The All England Club announced a doubles wild card invitation on Tuesday for the sisters to the tournament which starts in less than two weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The move comes after 44-year-old\u00a0Serena recently returned\u00a0to competition after nearly four years away from professional tennis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Venus, who has still been competing sporadically, turns 46 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Williams sisters have won 14 Grand Slam titles together in doubles, including six at Wimbledon \u2014 the first of them in 2000 and the last in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Serena\u00a0won her first doubles match\u00a0with partner Victoria Mboko at Queen\u2019s Club in London last week and was slated to play doubles with Karolina Muchova at the Berlin Open later Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Williams sisters\u00a0last played doubles together\u00a0at the 2022 U.S. Open, where they lost their opening match. That was the first time they played doubles together in 4 \u00bd years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Serena and Mboko won their opening match at Queen\u2019s Club but then had to withdraw after Mboko injured her knee in a singles match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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LONDON (AP) \u2014\u00a0Serena\u00a0and\u00a0Venus Williams\u00a0are bringing their doubles partnership back at\u00a0Wimbledon. The All England Club announced a doubles wild card invitation on Tuesday for the sisters to the tournament which starts in less than two weeks. The move comes after 44-year-old\u00a0Serena recently returned\u00a0to competition after nearly four years away from professional tennis. Venus, who has still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12903],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12903"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416416,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416415\/revisions\/416416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}