Serena Williams Injury Update, Latest Details on Star's Status for 2026 Wimbledon Doubles With Venus

Serena Williams' participation in the 2026 Wimbledon women's doubles tournament is reportedly in doubt after suffering a right knee injury during her first-round singles loss to Maya Joint on Tuesday.

According to Tom Kershaw of The Times, crutches were brought to Serena's locker room after the loss to Joint, and although she did leave unassisted, it is unclear if she will be able to play doubles alongside her sister, Venus Williams.

Serena's agent, Jill Smoller, subsequently provided a statement to Kershaw, saying, "Serena tweaked her knee at the end of the first set and was therefore excused from her media obligations by the Wimbledon and WTA medical teams. She left site that night unaided and is doing everything she can to be ready for her doubles match."

Williams later shared a message on instagram confirming she "tweaked" her knee and is "doing everything I can to be ready for doubles."

Venus and Serena are scheduled to face Camila Osorio and Solana Sierra in the first round of the women's doubles tournament on Thursday.

Serena, 44, ostensibly retired from tennis in 2022, but after nearly four years away, she recently returned to action at Queen's Club in London last month, playing doubles with Victoria Mboko.

She followed that up by teaming with Karolína Muchová in doubles at the Berlin Open one week later.

Williams then made the decision to play in both the singles and doubles draws at Wimbledon, earning a wild-card entry.

Widely regarded as the greatest women's tennis player of all time, Serena is a 23-time Grand Slam singles champion, and a 14-time Grand Slam doubles champion with all of those titles coming alongside Venus.

Despite having not played a singles match since 2022, Serena held her own against Joint on Tuesday.

She dropped the first set 6-3 before winning a second-set tiebreak to force a decisive first set. Serena seemed to run out of gas from there, though, as Joint took the third set 6-3 to win the match.

Although it wasn't the desired result of Serena, it proved that she can still hang with much younger opponents, as Joint is just 20 years old.

Serena perhaps has an even greater chance to succeed in doubles since it requires less movement with the court essentially being cut in half.

There is little doubt that the women's doubles tournament at Wimbledon will be appointment viewing if Serena and Venus are able to play, but that is now very much in question given Serena's injury status.