{"id":60857,"date":"2026-06-11T13:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/60857\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T13:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:17:09","slug":"hsbc-championships-2026-mboko-injury-looms-over-williams-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/60857\/","title":{"rendered":"HSBC Championships 2026: Mboko Injury Looms Over Williams Comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria Mboko withdrew from her first-round singles match at the 2026 HSBC Championships on Wednesday, after the <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/victoria-mboko-defeats-leylah-fernandez-jorge-fernandez-strasbourg-open-2026\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/victoria-mboko-defeats-leylah-fernandez-jorge-fernandez-strasbourg-open-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">19-year-old Canadian<\/a> slipped and fell while trailing Karolina Pliskova 6-2, 3-4 on grass.<\/p>\n<p>Mboko reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/ca.sports.yahoo.com\/news\/canadas-mboko-withdraws-queens-club-161201704.html\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/ca.sports.yahoo.com\/news\/canadas-mboko-withdraws-queens-club-161201704.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">told her physiotherapist<\/a> she had &#8220;no stability&#8221; after the fall, limping back to her bench and putting a towel to her face. Despite taking an immediate medical timeout, the tournament&#8217;s No. 3 seed could not continue her grass-court singles debut at London&#8217;s Queen&#8217;s Club.<\/p>\n<p>Mboko Injury Looms Over Doubles Run with Serena Williams<\/p>\n<p>The setback now puts the <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/wta-rankings-update-maja-chwalinska-french-open\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/wta-rankings-update-maja-chwalinska-french-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">world No. 9&#8217;s<\/a> doubles partnership with Serena Williams in doubt.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, 44, returned to <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/serena-williams-berlin-tennis-open-victoria-mboko-doubles-partner-2026\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/serena-williams-berlin-tennis-open-victoria-mboko-doubles-partner-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">competitive tennis<\/a> at Queen&#8217;s Club after nearly four years away from the WTA Tour. Her last professional match came at the 2022 US Open.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the pair opened with a <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/serena-williams-hsbc-championships-queens-club-victoria-mboko-results-2026\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/serena-williams-hsbc-championships-queens-club-victoria-mboko-results-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">straight-sets win<\/a> over third-seeded Erin Routliffe and Nicole Melichar-Martinez, 7-6(2), 6-2. They are next scheduled to face Canada&#8217;s Leylah Fernandez and Germany&#8217;s Laura Siegemund in Thursday&#8217;s quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>Whether Mboko can recover in time will determine if the partnership continues in the <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/hsbc-championships-emma-raducanu-wta-tour-tournament-queens-club-schedule-2026\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/hsbc-championships-emma-raducanu-wta-tour-tournament-queens-club-schedule-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">WTA 500 event<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victoria Mboko withdrew from her first-round singles match at the 2026 HSBC Championships on Wednesday, after the 19-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[20667],"tags":[28584,9881,29319,26503,29010],"class_list":["post-60857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hsbc","tag-2026-hsbc-championships","tag-hsbc","tag-hsbc-womens-world-championship","tag-serena-williams","tag-victoria-mboko"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116731670788908492","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60857","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=60857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}