U.S. tennis star Serena Williams admitted on Tuesday local time that she fears her storied career is over, a year after a leg injury forced her to retire from the tour at Wimbledon last year. The ranking currently plummets to 1204th. "Did I ever doubt that I was going to come back? Absolutely, yes. I would be dishonest if I said no (in her mind) and right now my body feels great," Williams said on Tuesday. In the women's doubles competition at the Eastbourne station, the 40-year-old veteran teamed up with Tunisian player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to defeat Sara Sorribes Tomo/Mary 2-6, 6-3, 13-11 ยทBuzkova won her first victory since her comeback. This is the 23-time Grand Slam singles champion Serena Williams' first international appearance since she withdrew from the competition in the first round of Wimbledon last year in tears. Retirement rumors had swirled around her for months before she unexpectedly announced her return to competition last week.
40-year-old Serena Williams teamed up with Tunisian player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to win a women's doubles round of 16 at Eastbourne.
As this year's Wimbledon will start on June 27, Serena Williams finally resumed her career. She and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar participated in the women's doubles match at Eastbourne as a warm-up match for Wimbledon. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is currently ranked third in the world in women's singles. The two worked together to defeat Spain's Tomo and Czech Republic's Bouzkova in the top 16 of the women's doubles. While Williams is far from her best, she will be buoyed by her first competitive appearance in 12 months.
The last time Serena Williams played was in the first round of Wimbledon 12 months ago.
Serena Williams declined to say how much longer she plans to play despite being just one title shy of equaling Margaret Court's record of 24 Grand Slams. "You know what I'm doing every day. I'm really slow to come back from my hamstring injury, so I'm not going to make a lot of decisions after that. Obviously I was doing a lot of non-training stuff in the beginning and before I couldn't participate After the US Open I was very disappointed with not training. I feel good (now) but I always try to stay semi-fit because you never know when you will play at Wimbledon. I I like tennis, I like playing, otherwise I wouldn't be here, but I also like working off the court."
Serena Williams took a full year off, and she has returned to the court this time at Eastbourne. Practice your hands in doubles.
won the French Open women's singles championship for the second time in three years. Swiatek will appear at Wimbledon as the favorite to win, but the Polish fierce woman has little control over the grass court, even though she was a youth champion at Wimbledon. Compared with the French Open, Swiatek's Wimbledon winning opponents will include the 23-time Grand Slam women's singles champion Serena Williams, who received a wild card in the Wimbledon main draw. As a seven-time Wimbledon women's singles champion, if Serena Williams wants to tie Margaret Court's record of 24 Grand Slam singles titles this year, Wimbledon will be a very good opportunity, and at present The competitive landscape of women's singles is so open.
Serena Williams has won 23 singles Grand Slams, ranking first among both men and women in the Open era. In addition, she is a 14-time Grand Slam doubles champion.
Serena Williams won the last of her 23 Grand Slam singles titles while pregnant at the 2017 Australian Open. Since then, she has lost four Grand Slam finals, including Wimbledon in 2018 and 2019. Serena Williams won her seventh and final Wimbledon singles title in 2016.
