Serena Williams Receives 2026 Wimbledon Singles Wild Card

Serena Williams will compete in the singles draw at the 2026 Wimbledon tournament as a wild card, the event announced on June 21. The 44-year-old last played a singles match at the 2022 U.S. Open. Williams returned to professional competition earlier in June at the HSBC Championships in London, where she played doubles before the run ended due to an injury to her partner.

She and Venus Williams will also play doubles together at Wimbledon, more than two decades after their first joint title there. Williams won seven singles titles at Wimbledon, with the last coming in 2016. She announced in 2022 that she was evolving away from tennis and had not competed in nearly four years before the June events.

At a pre-tournament news conference for the Queen’s Club Championships, Williams said she is playing without pressure to win. “I don’t need to win. I’ve won more than most people have in their whole lives, so for me that is not important to me, and it’s important that I keep reminding myself of that because I don’t have anything to prove, I don’t have anything to lose, and everything here is just just to gain,” she said.

The tournament begins later in June.