Tennis icon Serena Williams will play doubles at the Berlin Open next week with Czech player Karolina Muchova.<\/p>\n
“It doesn’t happen often that you get to play doubles with a player like that,” Muchova told a press conference on Saturday confirming the rumours.<\/p>\n
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The 44-year-old Williams is expected in the German capital for the grass event over the weekend.<\/p>\n
Her first appearance will still be a little while in coming.<\/p>\n
“Monday is rather unlikely, it will work out on Tuesday or Wednesday,” said tournament director Markus Zoecke.<\/p>\n
Just under two weeks ago, US star Williams announced her return from retirement in doubles, sending the tennis world into a stir.<\/p>\n
The 23-times Grand Slam singles champion made a winning comeback at Queen’s in London on Tuesday alongside Victoria Mboko, sealing a 7-6 (7-2), 6-2 first-round victory over Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Erin Routliffe.<\/p>\n
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But her return was cut short after doubles partner Mboko was forced withdrew with a knee problem.<\/p>\n
Former top German player Andrea Petkovic said: “Serena played superbly at Queen’s. She’s not simply coming back to see what it’s like. She’s in top shape.”<\/p>\n
Williams is surely set to appear at Wimbledon next month and a singles comeback at some point has not been ruled out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennis icon Serena Williams will play doubles at the Berlin Open next week with Czech player Karolina Muchova.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[99],"tags":[54436,112,190,54434,54435,51638,51791],"class_list":["post-107189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-andrea-petkovic","tag-berlin","tag-germany","tag-karolina-muchova","tag-queen39s-club","tag-serena-williams","tag-victoria-mboko"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116743156952110866","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}