dpSerena Williams’ Wimbledon comeback is officially over.
Williams and her sister Venus pulled out of the women’s doubles tournament today ahead of their first-round match, days after Williams made her return to Grand Slam tennis as a singles wild card with a 3-6, 7-6(6), 3-6 loss against 20-year-old Aussie Maya Joint in the first round.
The day after that match, Williams, 44, said she’d tweaked her knee in the first set and was doing everything she could to return to the doubles court with Venus, 46.
The pair have won six Wimbledon doubles titles together, and the tournament delayed their first-round match against Camila Osorio of Colombia and Solana Sierra of Argentina as late as possible, leaving it unscheduled as late as Saturday morning.
Their doubles withdrawal marks the end of Wimbledon for both sisters. Venus and Germany’s Kevin Krawietz entered the mixed doubles tournament as a wildcard pairing but lost their match Friday against Great Britain’s Lloyd Glasspool and Slovakia’s Tereza Mihaliková, the No. 7 seeds.
