Serena Williams

Serena Williams will play later this month at Wimbledon, which awarded a wild-card invitation Tuesday to the 23-time Grand Slam winner.

While Williams has been sidelined, first Ash Barty and then Iga Swiatek stepped into the opening left by her extended absence. Earlier in the day, Williams posted a photo of her white shoes on what appears to be a grass court and the message: "SW and SW19. It's a date. That is why she was not automatically placed in the Wimbledon field. (The tournament was canceled in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic.) Williams was the runner-up there in 2018 and 2019. Serena Williams will play at Wimbledon after all.

Seven-time Wimbledon champion Serena Williams will make her much-anticipated return to the grass courts of SW19 when the tournament kicks off later this ...

But I'm not giving up." 2022, see you there." Tuesday. "It's a date.

Williams' announcement marks her return to professional competition since sustaining an injury at the tournament last year. It's also another chance for her ...

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With 23 Grand Slam titles, Serena Williams, 40, on Tuesday received a wild-card entry to Wimbledon to seek a 24th after a year-long competitive hiatus.

Williams, whose power, skill and competitiveness revolutionized women’s tennis since she won her first Grand Slam at the 1999 U.S. Open, has been seeking to equal Margaret Court’s record of 24 Grand Slam titles. A well-executed drop shot not only can take a player by surprise, it also can exploit a shaky vulnerability. Until Tuesday, it wasn’t clear if Williams would return to competition at all. Instead, the All-England Club announced her wild-card entry. John Feinstein: “Statistics are overused, but a handful of Nadal’s numbers go beyond breathtaking. During her hiatus from the sport, her ranking has plunged to 1,208, well outside the cutoff for automatic entry to Grand Slam singles events.

Serena Williams received a wild card for Wimbledon later this month and will return to tournament tennis next week for her first matches in nearly one year.

Williams has not competed anywhere since getting injured during the first set of her first-round match at the All England Club a year ago. In 2021, Williams lost her footing on the slick grass and then her right leg buckled, leading to just the second mid-match retirement at any Grand Slam tournament of her career and first since 1998. But on Tuesday, Williams posted a photo of her white shoes on what appears to be a grass court and the message: “SW and SW19. It’s a date.

Serena Williams recently announced a strategic investment in the Brilliant Black Minds program that enhances access and inclusion for Black engineers in the ...

Jeffrey Spector, co-founder and president of Karat, says that while doubling the number of Black engineers in tech is a lofty objective, they have a strategy in place to achieve it. Both Williams and Mays, who grew up in Compton, California, understand the significance of the kind of transformation that technology can bring to communities that have experienced trauma and disenfranchisement. "All it takes is one chance to transform a person's life and the lives of others who follow," Mays adds. It's critical for me to go back to Compton and other parts of the country and show people that they can pass anyone's hiring criteria. By giving firms access to a larger, interview-ready talent pool, the Brilliant Black Minds initiative aids in the resolution of these important business concerns. The whole goal of the tech industry is to stimulate innovation, which you can't accomplish if there are only a few voices representing each sector." "It makes the purpose and meaning of what we do at Karat a lot more important and interesting from a cultural and societal standpoint,” adds Bhende. My focus is ensuring the solutions to those challenges are developed by all of us,” said Williams. “There has never been a shortage of brilliance in Black America; only limits to the access and opportunities extended to our community. The Brilliant Black Minds program uses Karat's interviewing cloud to provide free interview practice, feedback, and coaching to aspiring software engineers in this community. With only 5% of all software engineers in the United States being Black, the hurdles to entry into the tech industry are being exposed. Serena Williams recently announced a strategic investment in the initiative that enhances access and inclusion in the tech industry. However, the same study found that additional interview preparation boosts confidence - 79% of respondents with three practice interviews said they were more likely to succeed.