Serena Williams enters Wimbledon singles draw as wild card to face Maya Joint

Serena Williams is scheduled to play singles at Wimbledon next week as a wild card and will also compete in doubles alongside Venus Williams. Forbes reported that she will face Maya Joint, a 20-year-old Australian ranked 53rd, in singles on Monday or Tuesday and will play doubles on Thursday or Friday. Williams entered WTA events in London and Berlin this month.

She won her first match at the HSBC Championships before her partner Victoria Mboko withdrew with a knee injury. She then lost in the opening round of the Berlin Open with Karolina Muchova. Williams re-entered the International Tennis Integrity Agency’s drug-testing pool in December.

She posted on X at the time stating she was not returning to tennis, but she later entered the London and Berlin events. Forbes reported that Williams is unranked in singles after her hiatus yet holds the 17th-best odds to win Wimbledon on July 11, ahead of Qinwen Zheng and 2024 champion Barbora Krejcikova. A Wimbledon singles winner receives a $4.8 million check.

Williams has earned $94.8 million in career prize money. Williams is 44 years old and has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles. She gave birth to a second child in 2023 and is married to Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian.

She has ten long-term sponsors and launched Nine Two Six Productions in 2023. Forbes estimates Williams earned $50 million before taxes and agent fees over the last 12 months and places her lifetime earnings at roughly $620 million. Her net worth is estimated at $400 million.

She has taken stakes in 34 startups and holds ownership interests in the Miami Dolphins, Angel City FC, Los Angeles Golf Club, Unrivaled and the Toronto Tempo.