Serena Williams on Queen’s return: ‘Don’t need to win,’ unsure on playing singles againplaySerena Williams on her Queen’s return: Nothing to prove, nothing to lose (1:10)PAMultiple AuthorsJun 7, 2026, 12:32 PM ET
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Twenty-three-time Grand Slam singles champion Serena Williams is liberating herself of any expectations as she prepares to make her comeback at the HSBC Championships in London.
The 44-year-old has been given a wild card for the women’s doubles to play alongside 19-year-old Canadian Victoria Mboko at the Queen’s Club, marking her first competitive tennis since a farewell at the 2022 US Open.
Williams stated her decision to pick up a racket again boiled down to a simple “Why not?” And while Mboko feels her partner is “hitting great,” the American insists she is not focused on any outcomes.
“I don’t need to win,” Williams stated. “I’ve won more than most people have in their whole lives, so it’s not that important to me, and it’s important that I keep reminding myself of that, because I don’t have anything to prove.
“I don’t have anything to lose, and everything here is just to gain.”
Serena Williams stated she has nothing more to prove as she prepares for the HSBC Championships. (Photo by Luke Walker/Getty Images for LTA)Williams never directly used the word retirement, but Monday’s comeback confirmation still came as a shock after the mother of two had, to use her preferred terminology at the time, made the decision to “evolve away” from tennis.Speaking after she and Mboko trained on the Queen’s Club grass, Williams stated: “This whole journey is like, I’m putting no pressure on myself.”For me right now, it’s really just about so many elements. It’s really about my kids getting to see me play. Olympia is a little bit older, Adira is very young.”An athlete is the best thing that you can be in the highest place, and having an opportunity to still be able to do that, possibly one last time, is kind of cool and exciting.”Serena Williams has not played competitive tennis since the 2022 US Open. (Photo by Owen Hammond/NurPhoto via Getty Images)The seven-time Wimbledon singles champion, who claimed 39 Grand Slam titles (including doubles and mixed doubles) and spent 319 weeks as the WTA No. 1 at the peak of her career, has not exactly ruled out a return to singles, but suggested it was not imminent.”I can’t say no right now,” she stated. “I feel like I probably need to train a little bit more if I want to play singles, and we will see if I get there, and if not … that’s not my journey right now.”Editor’s Picks
Williams revealed as recently as December that she believed she “definitely was not” returning to tennis, but after some conversations, thought: “Well, why not? For lack of a better explanation.
“It’s summer, the kids aren’t in school, so it’s a perfect time to get out there, have fun, and see what happens.”
In Mboko, Williams saw something, she stated, “that reminded me a lot of myself” in her attitude, resilience, and drive. After making the “pretty 11th-hour commitment” to Queen’s, she reached out to the Canadian via text message.
Mboko stated: “She’s hitting great. She has such clean ball striking, she could probably take years off, and when she steps on the court she could probably find that rhythm again and find her timing. So I think that’s really a God-given gift that she has.
“I personally think she’s ready to go. I’m hitting with her, she’s hitting pretty big and she’s really fit, so we’ll see.”
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