Serena Williams won her comeback match at the 2026 Queens Club Championship. She is playing the women’s doubles with Canada’s Victoria Mboko. This was the 39-time Grand Slam winner’s first competitive outing since the 2022 US Open.
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Serena Williams marked her comeback to tennis after four years with a victory as she won her first-round women’s doubles fixture in the 2026 Queen’s Club Championship alongside Victoria Mboko. The American-Canadian pair won their match against third seeds Erin Routliffe (New Zealand) and Nicole Melichar-Martinez (United States of America) in straight sets.
Serena and Mboko outclassed their opponents in their first outing together. The pair have an age difference of 25 years but look comfortable playing with each other as they won the clash at the Andy Murray Arena at the Queen’s Club in West London by 7-6 (7-2), 6-2. The fixture lasted just one hour and 30 minutes.
Both pairs broke each other once in the first set before the unseeded pair took the set in the tiebreaker. They made the most of the momentum by winning the second set comfortably by breaking the third seed twice while holding onto all their serves while not even facing a single break point.
They will now face the winner of the game between Leylah Fernandez/Alexandra Panova and Laura Siegemund/Demi Schuurs in the second round.
Serena Williams’s Comeback
This marked Serena’s first competitive outing since the 2022 US Open, after which she announced that she was ‘evolving away from the sport.’ She is widely regarded as the greatest tennis player of all time with 39 Grand Slam titles (23 women’s singles, 14 women’s doubles, and 2 mixed doubles).
The American was handed a wildcard for this tournament and paired up with teenager Mboko.