Serena Williams in discussions about potential return at Queen's

There are 2 doubles wildcards disposable for the tourney astatine Queen’s, and 1 is reserved for a squad which includes a erstwhile satellite fig one, a Grand Slam champion of the past 10 years oregon a existent top-30 player.

WIlliams has ne'er liked the connection retirement, preferring alternatively to accidental she was "evolving away" from tennis successful 2022.

She mislaid to Australia’s Ajla Tomljanovic successful the 3rd circular of the 2022 US Open, successful what the satellite thought would beryllium her last match.

Williams had reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open earlier that year, and won her past Grand Slam singles rubric successful Melbourne successful 2017 astatine the property of 35.

The Lawn Tennis Association has consistently prioritised British players erstwhile determining who should person wildcards astatine home writer tribunal events.

All 4 disposable for the singles gully are precise apt to spell to British players, but the LTA are apt to consciousness otherwise astir the doubles fixed the "exceptional circumstances" of a imaginable Williams return.

"Never accidental never, and not wanting to talk of immoderate 1 idiosyncratic player, but you volition person seen implicit caller years that those wildcard opportunities are afforded to British players - that is perfectly my cardinal idiosyncratic content and philosophy," LTA main enforcement Scott Lloyd said astatine a briefing for journalists successful April.

"There mightiness beryllium exceptional circumstances which mightiness power a unsocial wildcard, but different those playing opportunities we privation to spend to British players."

The organisation’s show manager Michael Bourne besides hinted commercialized opportunities could beryllium a factor.

"It's besides truly important to retrieve that we successful the show squad recognize that players person to gain that right,” Bourne said.

"We don't instrumentality them for granted. If we didn't deliberation we had a extent of subordinate wherever it was close for them to instrumentality those opportunities, and determination was thing other that was bully for the business, we would clasp our hands up."