{"id":48039,"date":"2026-06-01T13:10:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/serena-williams-returns-the-sports-world-reacts-to-the-legendary-tennis-stars-return-after-four-years\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T13:10:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:10:48","slug":"serena-williams-returns-the-sports-world-reacts-to-the-legendary-tennis-stars-return-after-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/serena-williams-returns-the-sports-world-reacts-to-the-legendary-tennis-stars-return-after-four-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams returns: The sports world reacts to the legendary tennis star&#8217;s return after four years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Serena Williams is back. Williams, who took a break from tennis in 2022, is set to make a triumphant return to the sport at the HSBC Championship in June.<\/p>\n<p>That was a shocking announcement. Williams, 44, has not played professional tennis in four years. However, given her prominence in the sport and long hiatus, Williams received a lot of support from her fellow athletes after announcing her return.<\/p>\n<p>advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Retired tennis veteran Caroline Wozniacki and Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn, who know a thing or two about late-career comebacks, were among the early athletes to send support to Williams.<\/p>\n<p>Both Wozniacki and Vonn responded to the Instagram teaser posted by Williams. In the teaser, Williams&#8217; phone keeps ringing. As she walks across the court to grab it, the screen goes black and text pops up on the screen: &#8220;I think everyone heard the news.&#8221;<\/p>\n<section class=\"consent\"\/>\n<p>Wozniacki responded to the clip with fire emoji and applause emoji. Bon concluded his thoughts with &#8220;LFG!!&#8221; Two flexed biceps emoji.<\/p>\n<p>Track and field star Allyson Felix, who recently announced her return, also responded positively to Williams&#8217; news.<\/p>\n<p>advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Nike, which helped create the teaser Williams posted on Monday, joked that Williams might have to change his phone number following the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Many Tennis Grand Slam social media accounts took note of the news. The French Open tweeted Williams&#8217; return post despite the event currently being held.<\/p>\n<p>Wimbledon also confirmed Williams&#8217; return.<\/p>\n<p>Some believe Williams could use the HSBC Championship as a tune-up for her return at Wimbledon later in June. Williams and Wimbledon have not commented on whether the 23-time Grand Slam champion will compete again.<\/p>\n<p><em>This story will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serena Williams is back. Williams, who took a break from tennis in 2022, is set to make a triumphant return to the sport at the HSBC Championship in June. That was a shocking announcement. Williams, 44, has not played professional tennis in four years. However, given her prominence in the sport and long hiatus, Williams [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[3968,6598,152,702,953,1638,366,24,954,42,316],"class_list":["post-48039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-legendary","tag-reacts","tag-return","tag-returns","tag-serena","tag-sports","tag-stars","tag-tennis","tag-williams","tag-world","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}