Be careful, tennis world: Venus Williams isn’t completed with Grand Slams simply but.
The 42-year-old tennis veteran shocked followers earlier this week when she made an surprising wild card request to look on this yr’s blended doubles lineup at Wimbledon.
Williams selected a well-recognized household tennis swap as her doubles associate.
The five-time Wimbledon champion will take the courts with British participant Jamie Murray, who's ranked No. 21 within the ATP’s doubles rankings.
Murray is the older brother of tennis star Andy Murray, who served as sister Serena Williams’ blended doubles associate throughout Wimbledon in 2019.
Final yr, Venus partnered with controversial Australian participant Nick Kyrgios for blended doubles earlier than an damage to Kyrgios precipitated the pair to withdraw from their second-round match.
Wimbledon will mark Williams’ first return to the middle stage in almost a yr. Williams’ final look was on the Chicago Open in 2021, the place she was the oldest athlete within the draw and misplaced within the first spherical to Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei.
Regardless of the lengthy break and a persistent leg damage that has beforehand saved Williams off the courts, the blended doubles pair is to not be underestimated, with each gamers every having two main blended doubles titles underneath their belts.
Serena Williams confronted an early exit from Wimbledon after her first-round loss to France’s Concord Tan.
For followers of the Williams sisters who had been disenchanted by Serena’s short-lived Wimbledon run, Venus has given spectators one thing to sit up for on the All England Membership.
The tennis duo is ready to tackle Forty fourth-ranked Alicja Rosolska and Ninth-ranked Michael Venus within the first spherical.
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