What time is Serena Williams playing today? That still has not been set, but she has accepted a singles wild card and will make her Grand Slam return at Wimbledon. The move brings her back into singles after she said she would ease her way in.
Serena Williams at Wimbledon
Williams has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, including seven at Wimbledon. She has also won 73 singles titles on the WTA Tour, played 1,011 matches, and spent 319 weeks as the WTA world No 1.
Her name still changes the shape of Wimbledon’s draw room. This time, the field has one fewer mystery around entry and one more around the order of play, because the wild card puts her into singles without the usual route through qualifying.
Monica Puig at Hurlingham Club
Monica Puig said she was surprised by the timing. Speaking at the Hurlingham Club, she said: “I had seen in an interview she had said she was going to ease her way into playing singles and I know there was some speculation that she was going to do it, I just didn’t think she was going to come back that soon after hearing that interview, but I just think it’s really exciting,”
Puig added: “This is great for tennis, great for Wimbledon as well, and I can see why she wants to come back and play singles.” That reaction fits the split between Williams’s stated intention to return gradually and the decision to jump back into singles sooner than expected.
Wimbledon and the schedule
Williams re-entered the anti-doping testing pool late last year before this grass-court return. She impressed in her opening doubles match at Queen's Club, then played alongside Karolina Muchova in Berlin and lost in the first round after Victoria Mboko’s injury left her only one match in that stretch.
For readers checking the board for today’s start time, the answer is not yet in place. The immediate takeaway is simpler: Williams is back in singles, Wimbledon kept a wild card open until the last minute, and the next step is the order of play rather than the announcement of a match clock.
