Serena Williams on Maya Joint match and return to tennis

The Williams sisters - who will team up again for the doubles here - are synonymous with Wimbledon. For a 19-year period, at least one Williams sister was in all but four singles finals at SW19. They won a combined 12 Wimbledon singles titles - seven for Serena and five for Venus - between 2000 and 2016. Elder sister Venus won it first. Little sister Serena won it more. When they combined they were dominant, winning six women's doubles titles together. When they faced one another it was absorbing - two players who knew each other's games inside out, from years spent on the practice courts in Compton, California. If you think of the Williams sisters you see them in the Wimbledon whites, moving around a grass court, two beautiful service motions, with athleticism, power, and touch at the net to boot. As Serena said - it is not every day Wimbledon holds a wildcard for someone. "I can name probably like a handful of people. I happened to be one of them," she said. "I thought, 'I should really take this opportunity'. Who knows if I'll ever make it here again? This could be it. …