Williams sisters reunite for Wimbledon doubles run

By Leobert Julian A. de la Peña

Serena and Venus Williams are back together on the Grand Slam stage.

Four years after playing their last tournament together at the 2022 US Open, the Williams sisters received a wild card to compete in women’s doubles at Wimbledon 2026.

The All England Club also awarded women’s singles wild cards to Maja Chwalinska, Harriet Dart, Alicia Dudeney, Hannah Klugman, Mika Stojsavljevic, Katie Swan, and Mimi Xu.

In the men’s singles draw, the initial wild card list is headlined by Grigor Dimitrov, Jacob Fearnley, Arthur Fery, Jack Pinnington Jones, Toby Samuel, and Stan Wawrinka, who is set to retire at the end of the season.

With six Wimbledon women’s doubles titles together, the Williams sisters will try to add to their 14 Grand Slam doubles championships.

Their Grand Slam doubles dominance began in 1999, when they won the French Open and US Open titles.

They went on to win 12 more Grand Slam doubles titles from 2000 to 2016, including back-to-back Wimbledon crowns in 2008 and 2009.

The sisters also won Olympic doubles gold medals in Sydney in 2000, Beijing in 2008, and London in 2012.

Venus recently returned to the competitive scene after a 16-month hiatus, joining the 2025 Mubadala Citi DC Open.

Serena also returned to professional tennis after nearly four years away, teaming with Canada’s Victoria Mboko at the Queen’s Club Championships.

Serena and Mboko defeated Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Erin Routliffe in their opening doubles match, but Mboko later sustained a knee injury that put their Queen’s campaign in doubt.

Wimbledon begins June 29, giving the Williams sisters less than two weeks to prepare for their reunion at the All England Club.

“My daughter Olympia told me I should play with Venus. She’s always right,” said Serena.

“I think I was really motivated by what Venus was doing that year in the US Open doubles. I thought she played really well.”