Serena Williams will return to tennis at Queen’s Club

The highest-earning female athlete of all time, Williams has attracted giant crowds throughout her career and is someone who has truly transcended her sport.

Possessing the best serve ever in the women’s game, Williams was known for her big groundstrokes, strong service returns, and excellent movement.

After retiring, Williams largely stayed away from the game and gave birth to her second daughter in 2023.

Last year, he spoke on the Today Show in the US about losing 31 pounds (14 kg) in the past eight months.

He said he had to see his extra weight as a ‘rival.’ Despite “training five hours a day” and “running, walking, biking, and climbing stairs”, he told the show that he had no other choice but to “try something different”.

Williams did not reveal which weight loss drug she was taking, although she recently became a spokeswoman for Ro, a company that sells GLP-1 brands such as Wegovy and Zepbound (known as Monjaro in the UK) through its weight loss programme. Her husband, Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian, is also an investor.

Williams said she was seeing the benefits of her hard work in the gym, training for a half-marathon and “running further than I ever have.”