{"id":13378,"date":"2026-06-04T17:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T17:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/13378\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T17:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T17:16:11","slug":"victoria-mboko-to-be-serena-williams-doubles-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/13378\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Mboko to be Serena Williams&#8217; doubles partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Field Level Media;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fieldlevelmedia.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Field Level Media\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"312\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2024-11\/bc126ea0-acd9-11ef-adff-76a94cf3e57a.jpeg\"\/><\/a>Thu, June 4, 2026 at 3:34 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"976\" height=\"651\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_field_level_media_articles_659\/78eb71c0f4e1a3e3928cb4a79aeed8c1.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mar 24, 2026; Miami Gardens, FL, USA; Victoria Mboko (CAN) hits a forehand against Karolina Muchova (CZE) (not pictured) on day eight of the 2026 Miami Open at Hard Rock Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Geoff Burke-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p> (Geoff Burke-Imagn Images)<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s Victoria Mboko confirmed she will be Serena Williams&#8217; doubles partner next week in London.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, 44, announced her comeback on Monday after nearly four years away from the WTA Tour.<\/p>\n<p>Williams and Mboko will compete at the HSBC Championships at the Queen&#8217;s Club in West Kensington on the grass courts starting Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An honor to share the court with one of the greatest athletes of all time this week,&#8221; Mboko, 19, wrote on Instagram. &#8220;Even more excited to play doubles together! Tennis is pretty special.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mboko&#8217;s post included a photograph of herself with Williams on the practice court as well as heart and goat emojis, the latter a nod to Williams&#8217; G.O.A.T. (Greatest of All Time) status as a 23-time Grand Slam champion.<\/p>\n<p>Mboko, ranked No. 9 in the world, has won two singles titles &#8212; 71 fewer than her new doubles partner.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, who received a wild-card entry into the doubles draw, also won 14 Grand Slam doubles titles with her sister, Venus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thu, June 4, 2026 at 3:34 PM UTC Mar 24, 2026; Miami Gardens, FL, USA; Victoria Mboko (CAN)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[5527,122,409],"class_list":["post-13378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-victoria-mboko","tag-partner","tag-serena-williams","tag-victoria-mboko"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}