{"id":50510,"date":"2022-06-14T17:45:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T17:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/serena-williams-to-play-at-wimbledon-after-receiving-wild-card-invitation\/"},"modified":"2022-06-14T17:45:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T17:45:05","slug":"serena-williams-to-play-at-wimbledon-after-receiving-wild-card-invitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/serena-williams-to-play-at-wimbledon-after-receiving-wild-card-invitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams to play at Wimbledon after receiving wild-card invitation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Serena Williams will play at Wimbledon after all. The All England Club announced on Tuesday that Williams was awarded a wild-card entry for singles, marking her return to Grand Slam action after a year away.<\/p>\n

The owner of a professional-era-record 23 Grand Slam singles trophies will tune up by playing doubles at a smaller grass-court event first, teaming with Ons Jabeur at Eastbourne, England, next week.<\/p>\n

Main-draw play at Wimbledon begins on June 27.<\/p>\n

Williams has not competed since getting injured during the first set of her first-round match at the All England Club in 2021.<\/p>\n

Her name did not appear on the women’s singles entry list released by the grass-court Grand Slam tournament earlier this month, but she was among a half-dozen women given a spot in the singles draw on Tuesday, along with five British players: Katie Boulter, Jodie Burrage, Sonay Kartal, Yuriko Miyazaki and Katie Swan.<\/p>\n

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The stage awaits.<\/p>\n

Our 7-time champion @serenawilliams<\/a> will return to Wimbledon as a wild card this summer for her 21st appearance pic.twitter.com\/7ddMAv7mOq<\/a><\/p>\n

– Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) June 14, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Two other women will get invitations “in due course, ” the All England Club said.<\/p>\n

Seven of the eight men’s wild-card berths were also announced, including one for three-time major champion Stan Wawrinka.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the day, Williams posted a photo of her white shoes on what appears to be a grass court and the message: “SW and SW19. It’s a date. 2022. See you there. Let’s Go.”<\/p>\n

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“SW” are her initials, of course, and “SW19” is the postal code for Wimbledon.<\/p>\n

The 40-year-old American has won seven of her singles trophies at Wimbledon, the first in 2002 and most recently in 2016. Williams was the runner-up there in 2018 and 2019. (The tournament was canceled in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic.)<\/p>\n