Serena and Venus Williams Earn Wimbledon 2026 Doubles Wildcard
Serena Williams and Venus Williams will play women’s doubles at wimbledon 2026 after receiving a wildcard into the draw. The sisters have won the Wimbledon women’s doubles title six times together, and Serena’s return now reaches the All England Club after her comeback last week at Queen’s and doubles play in Berlin this week.
Williams sisters back at Wimbledon
The wildcard places both sisters in the women’s doubles field, but neither is on the list for the singles wildcards. One remaining singles wildcard spot still has to be allocated, leaving the singles picture partly unfinished even as the doubles entry is settled.
Serena arrives as a 23-time Grand Slam singles champion with seven Wimbledon titles, and the doubles return extends a comeback that had already resumed with her first appearance at Queen’s last week. She last played what many expected to be the final match of her career at the 2022 US Open, which makes this Wimbledon entry the latest step in a return that has moved from one event to the next.
Venus Williams and the draw
Venus Williams is 45 and has lost all seven of her singles matches this season, but she did win a doubles match with Britain’s Katie Boulter at the Madrid Open in April. That result shows she has stayed active in doubles even while the singles results have gone against her.
Wimbledon said wildcards are usually offered on the basis of past performance at the tournament or to increase British interest. The Williams sisters fit the first part of that logic better than most: they have six women’s doubles titles at Wimbledon, a record that makes their return one of the most notable entries in the draw.
Wimbledon wildcard picture
The singles wildcard list already includes Grigor Dimitrov, Maja Chwalinska and Stan Wawrinka, while former British number one Dan Evans was not given a place in the men’s singles main draw. With six British men’s players ranked high enough to receive direct entry, the committee still has two more spots to fill across the singles fields, and that leaves the final makeup of the draw still taking shape.
For readers tracking the tournament entry list, the immediate change is simple: Serena and Venus Williams are in the women’s doubles field at Wimbledon 2026, and Serena’s comeback now has a Grand Slam stage attached to it again.
