Serena Williams, Now Ranked 246th In The World, Mentions Possible Return At Wimbledon

Serena Williams hasn’t played since last year’s Wimbledon and is now ranked 246th in the world, but she says he is planning to play at the All-England Lawn Tennis Club this year.

Williams, 40, posted a video with Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers to her Instagram story from the Bitcoin conference in Miami saying that they were discussing her comeback.

“We’ve been talking about my comeback,” said Williams, who owns 23 Grand Slam singles titles, one shy of Margaret Court’s all-time record. “He’s been hyping me up and getting me ready for Wimbledon.”

When Rodgers asked, “What about U.S. Open?” Williams responded, “Wimbledon’s before the U.S. Open, I gotta play Wimbledon first.”

Serena retired from her first-round match at Wimbledon last year in a flood of tears after slipping several times on the wet grass and aggravating a hamstring injury.

She later withdrew on the eve of the U.S. Open last summer due to a torn hamstring, and hasn’t played since.

Meantime, her longtime coach, Patrick Mouratoglou, announced Thursday he will work full-time with former world No. 1 Simona Halep, now ranked No. 20. The Frenchman has been Williams’s head coach since 2012, and she has won 10 of her 23 majors with him.

“Excited for a new chapter. Let’s get to work,” tweeted Halep, a two-time Grand Slam champion who had been without a coach since splitting with Darren Cahill last September.