Serena and Venus Williams are bringing their doubles partnership back at Wimbledon.
The All England Club announced a doubles wild card invitation on Tuesday for the sisters to the tournament which starts in less than two weeks.
The move comes after 44-year-old Serena recently returned to competition after nearly four years away from professional tennis.
Venus, who has still been competing sporadically, turns 46 on Wednesday.
The Williams sisters have won 14 grand slam titles together in doubles, including six at Wimbledon — the first of them in 2000 and the last in 2016.
Serena won her first doubles match with partner Victoria Mboko at Queen’s Club in London last week and was slated to play doubles with Karolína Muchová at the Berlin Open later Tuesday.
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Serena Williams has returned to professional tennis. CNN’s Amanda Davies reports from the Queen’s Club Championships in West London where the 44-year-old tennis legend played in the first doubles match of her return to the sport.
The Williams sisters last played doubles together at the 2022 US Open, where they lost their opening match. That was the first time they played doubles together in four and a half years.
Serena and Mboko won their opening match at Queen’s Club but then had to withdraw after Mboko injured her knee in a singles match.
