Is Serena Williams competing at Wimbledon this year?
By John Buhler
The 2017 Wimbledon Championships will take place in London over the next few weeks. Will top American star Serena Williams be playing in this Grand Slam?
It is the first weekend of July. That means it’s time for Wimbledon in the professional tennis world. This is the most celebrated of the four Grand Slams in professional tennis. The 131st playing of The Championships, Wimbledon will begin on Monday, July 3 at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London. Can we expect top American women’s player Serena Williams to make the trek to London?
Well, if you picked up a copy of the latest issue of Vanity Fair, you’ll realize that Williams is pregnant with her first child. While this is an exciting time for Williams as a soon-to-be mother, it means she will not be playing in the 2017 Wimbledon Championships.
Williams last played in the 2017 Australian Open, winning another Grand Slam tournament in her great professional career in tennis. She will sit out the rest of the 2017 tennis season to get ready for the birth of her child.
To date, Williams has won seven Wimbledon championships and is only two off the all-time mark set by the legendary Martina Navratilova back in 1990. If anybody is going to break Navratilova’s Wimbledon record, it has to be Williams. However, she will not have the opportunity to do so until the 2019 Wimbledon Championships at the very earliest.
Not having Williams playing in the final three Grand Slam tournaments this year has opened up the floodgates for anything to happen in the women’s circuit. The 2017 French Open was a chaotic one in the women’s singles with top-seeded Angelique Kerber losing her first match. We also saw 20-year-old Jelena Ostapenko win her first major championship in June.
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