{"id":59573,"date":"2026-06-09T21:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T21:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/59573\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T21:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T21:06:11","slug":"serena-williams-wears-pink-nike-kit-for-tennis-comeback-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/59573\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams Wears Pink Nike Kit for Tennis Comeback in London"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSerena Williams<\/a> returned to professional tennis<\/a> on Tuesday with a fresh Nike<\/a> kit at the HSBC Championships in London.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Serena<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tSerena Williams<\/a> and Victoria Mboko<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPaul Harding\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 23-time grand slam champion<\/a>, who\u2019s competing in doubles alongside Canadian tennis<\/a> player and world number nine Victoria Mboko, wore a soft pink Nike<\/a> tennis kit complete with pleated skirt and coordinated jacket by the American athletic footwear and apparel brand<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe zip-up jacket had a high collar and long sleeves, which later revealed a fitted white sleeveless shirt beneath. The venerated athlete also wore black and white Nike wrist bands and her tennis shoes augmented the color scheme of her on-court kit \u2014 with tones of pink, white and black throughout.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Serena<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tSerena Williams<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGetty Images for LTA<\/p>\n

\n\tTuesday\u2019s doubles match with Mboko at the HSBC Championships in London marks Williams\u2019 first professional tennis match in nearly four years. The last time Williams competed in the sport was at the 2022 U.S. Open in New York City.<\/p>\n

\n\tThroughout her decades-long career, Williams\u2019 on-court style pushed boundaries. The four-time Olympic gold medalist often favored custom Nike kits for grand slam tournaments and even collaborated with high-profile designers on her kits throughout her career.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Serena<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tSerena Williams and Victoria Mboko<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGetty Images for LTA<\/p>\n

\n\tFor her last on-court look before her comeback, Williams collaborated with Nike\u2019s lead apparel designer Carly Ellis on her shimmering tennis kit complete with sheer mesh fabric, a tulle skirt and crystal embellishments throughout.<\/p>\n

\n\tWilliams also worked with the likes of the late Virgil Abloh, who curated Williams\u2019s Nike x Off-White tennis outfits for the 2018 U.S. Open. <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Serena<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tSerena Williams<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGetty Images for LTA<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 2026 HSBC Championships, hosted at The Queen\u2019s Club in London, kicked off on Saturday and concludes on June 21. The 2026 edition of the Women\u2019s Tennis Association tournament features the return of Serena Williams, along with other grand slam champions like Britain\u2019s Emma Raducanu and Elena Rybakina. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serena Williams returned to professional tennis on Tuesday with a fresh Nike kit at the HSBC Championships in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[20667],"tags":[9881,28988,26503,4041],"class_list":["post-59573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hsbc","tag-hsbc","tag-nike","tag-serena-williams","tag-tennis"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116722190489276846","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}