Overview
- Wimbledon has awarded Serena Williams the final women’s singles wildcard for 2026 and has also given a doubles wildcard for her to play with Venus Williams.
- Her immediate build-up has been limited to a Queen’s Club doubles win with Victoria Mboko and a first-round doubles loss in Berlin with Karolína Muchová.
- Serena has not played a Wimbledon singles match since 2022, when she lost in the first round to Harmony Tan, a result that highlights uncertainty about her current match sharpness.
- As a wildcard with no current ranking she could be drawn against any of the other 127 players in the 128-player field, which makes her first-round opponent unpredictable.
- The comeback has renewed public interest in her legacy as a seven-time Wimbledon singles champion and prompted questions about fitness, use of recent weight-loss treatments, and how tournament organizers balance star invitations with competitive fairness.