{"id":13447,"date":"2026-06-04T19:06:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/13447\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T19:06:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:06:52","slug":"meet-the-teen-sensation-teaming-with-serena-williams-for-her-stunning-return-to-tennis-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/13447\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the teen sensation teaming with Serena Williams for her stunning return to tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tennis legend Serena Williams<\/a> is set to make her highly anticipated return<\/a> to the court at next week\u2019s HSBC Championships, and she\u2019ll retake the limelight alongside one of the sports rising stars.<\/p>\n

Victoria Mboko, 19, will team with Williams in the women\u2019s doubles and the Canadian has already expressed her immense admiration for her partner as they shared a picture at the Queen\u2019s Club.<\/p>\n

Williams, the 23-time grand slam singles champion, earlier this week confirmed she would be making her comeback at the west London<\/a> venue where, last year, a women\u2019s tournament was hosted for the first time since 1973.<\/p>\n

The 44-year-old is a quarter of a century older than Mboko, who was voted WTA Newcomer of the Year in 2025.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Mboko posted a picture of the pair on the grass at the Queen\u2019s Club alongside the caption: \u201cAn honor to share the court with one of the greatest athletes of all time this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven more excited to play doubles together! Tennis is pretty special.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mboko has a WTA 1000 title under her belt, coming from behind to beat Naomi Osaka on home soil at the Canadian Open last year.<\/p>\n

She has also earned back-to-back top-10 wins for the first time in her career this year, beating World No 7 Mirra Andreeva and defending Australian Open champion Elena Rybakina on the way to the Qatar Open final in February, which she went on to lose.<\/p>\n

\"VictoriaVictoria Mboko won the Canadian Open last year (Getty)<\/p>\n

Williams, meanwhile, has not played since the US Open in 2022, though she never outright used the word \u201cretirement\u201d, preferring to say she was \u201cevolving away\u201d from tennis.<\/p>\n

Announcing her comeback, Williams said: \u201cQueen\u2019s Club feels like the perfect place to begin this next chapter.<\/p>\n

\u201cGrass has given me some of the most meaningful moments of my career, and I\u2019m excited to be back competing on one of the sport\u2019s most iconic stages.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[595,425,1122,4126,115,1125,366,596,610,613,5526,751,1126,1121,1123,609,3854,113,28,2523,409,1624],"class_list":["post-13447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-adult","tag-canada","tag-color-image","tag-day-7","tag-france","tag-french-tennis-open","tag-grand-slam","tag-horizontal","tag-individual-event","tag-international-tennis-federation","tag-looking","tag-madison-keys","tag-match-sport","tag-open-competition","tag-paris-france","tag-photography","tag-round-three","tag-sport","tag-tennis","tag-usa","tag-victoria-mboko","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13447","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=13447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}