Serena’s Wimbledon singles comeback is ON
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2026
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
Catherine, David and Matt were live on YouTube on Sunday night to react to the huge news that Serena Williams will be playing singles at Wimbledon after accepting the last wildcard.
Part one - Serena’s singles return at Wimbledon (00:00 - 32:12). We discuss how shocking it is, what to expect, and some fun possible round one matches.
Part two (32:13 - 1:15:21) - We cover the big results from this week, including titles for Frances Tiafoe in Halle, Francisco Cerundolo at Queen’s and Linda Noskova in Berlin, big wins and performances from Taylor Fritz and Jessica Pegula, and some more question marks over Aryna Sabalenka’s form.
Part three (1:15:22 - 1:37:49) - A look ahead to this week as the build up to Wimbledon intensifies, headlined by the return of Jack Draper alongside coach Andy Murray.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:16.0 | Coming to you live tonight, somewhat ahead of our original schedule, |
| 0:20.6 | because events have overtaken proceedings |
| 0:23.5 | in dramatic fashion this evening with the news that broke a little over 90 minutes ago that |
| 0:31.0 | the eighth and final women's singles main draw wildcard for Wimbledon, which had been |
| 0:37.3 | mysteriously held back for a few |
| 0:39.5 | days there, has now been allocated to seven-time former champion Serena Williams, four years |
| 0:47.7 | after her retirement at the 2022 US Open. And at the age of 44, Serena Williams will be returning to singles competition at |
| 0:56.9 | Wimbledon a week from now and we will be there with live shows just like this one every night |
| 1:03.9 | of the championships from the broadcast roof overlooking the ground. So if you want to join us |
| 1:08.2 | for those shows, hit the subscribe button on our YouTube |
| 1:11.2 | channel and get notified when we're going live. All shows, of course, will be available as |
| 1:16.3 | podcasts as well. David Law, Matt Roberts are both here. Of course, Serena deserves nothing less |
| 1:23.8 | than a full house. David, I'm going to ask you how shocked you are by this news. And by that, |
| 1:32.2 | I mean, not in the context of today or this week or maybe even this month, because we were on, |
| 1:38.4 | we were on standby to do a live show following this news, weren't we? As soon as those wild cards got announced |
| 1:45.5 | and there was one free and Serena was practicing at Wimbledon, like we knew there was a strong |
| 1:51.2 | possibility of this. I think we all kind of knew when Serena confirmed her comeback generally |
| 1:56.4 | that she most likely wasn't in this just for the doubles. So when I ask you how shocked you are, |
| 2:02.3 | I kind of mean how shocked would David Law of 12 months ago |
| 2:07.4 | have been to have been shown a glimpse into the future |
| 2:11.3 | and see Wimbled in 2026 with Serena Williams in it? |
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