{"id":50294,"date":"2022-06-14T14:49:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T14:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/serena-williams-handed-wild-card-entry-for-wimbledon-return\/"},"modified":"2022-06-14T14:49:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T14:49:26","slug":"serena-williams-handed-wild-card-entry-for-wimbledon-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/serena-williams-handed-wild-card-entry-for-wimbledon-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams handed wild card entry for Wimbledon return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Williams will compete in ladies&#8217; singles, according to an announcement from Wimbledon Tuesday.<\/p>\n<div data-paragraph-id=\"paragraph_BE501CEE-4401-B072-1022-6251B8159C64\">The American also hinted at the highly anticipated news: &#8220;SW and SW19,&#8221; Williams posted on Instagram Tuesday.  &#8220;It&#8217;s a date. 2022, see you there.&#8221;  SW19 is the postcode district in Southwest London incorporating Wimbledon, among other boroughs. <\/div>\n<p>The social media post showed her standing on a grass court with white sneakers on.<\/p>\n<p>Williams has not played competitively since an injury forced her to retire in a first-round match at Wimbledon last year.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The 23-time major champion last reached the Wimbledon final in 2019 where she lost to Simona Halep, who now works with Williams&#8217; former coach Patrick Mouratoglou.<\/p>\n<div class=\"el__embedded el__embedded--standard\">\n<div class=\"el__storyelement--standard el__article--embed\">\n<div class=\"el__article--teaseimage\"><noscript><img alt=\"Novak Djokovic criticizes Wimbledon &#038; # 39; s &#038; # 39; lose-lose &#038; # 39;  ban on Russian and Belarusian players\" class=\"media__image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/220523213535-novak-djokovic-220523-restricted-large-169.jpg?ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Williams will first make her return to the court in Eastbourne next week for the LTA&#8217;s Rothesay International, pairing up with Tunisia&#8217;s world No. 4 Ons Jabeur for the doubles event, in what will be her first tournament appearance in almost a year, according to the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Widely considered to be the GOAT of women&#8217;s tennis, 23-time grand slam champion Serena Williams says she&#8217;s still aiming to beat Margaret Court&#8217;s record of 24.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I should have been at like 30 or 32 (grand slam singles titles),&#8221; Williams told CNN&#8217;s Christiane Amanpour earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I should have had it (the record), really, I&#8217;ve had many opportunities to have it. But I&#8217;m not giving up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Williams was forced to miss January&#8217;s Australian Open following the advice of her medical team, announcing in December that she wasn&#8217;t &#8220;where I need to be physically to compete.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wimbledon is scheduled for June 27 to July 10 at the All England Lawn Tennis &#038; Croquet Club.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jill Martin, Alicia Lloyd and Christiane Amanpour contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Williams will compete in ladies&#8217; singles, according to an announcement from Wimbledon Tuesday. The American also hinted at the highly anticipated news: &#8220;SW and SW19,&#8221; Williams posted on Instagram Tuesday. &#8220;It&#8217;s a date. 2022, see you there.&#8221; SW19 is the postcode district in Southwest London incorporating Wimbledon, among other boroughs. The social media post showed &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/serena-williams-handed-wild-card-entry-for-wimbledon-return\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Serena Williams handed wild card entry for Wimbledon return<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[21416,3468],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/220614140938-serena-williams-wimbledon-super-tease.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}