Serena Williams isn’t done with tennis after all.

The 23-time Grand Slam champion entered the HSBC Championships as a doubles wildcard, the tournament confirmed on Monday. The tournament, played on grass at the Queen’s Club in London and begins June 6, is a WTA 500-level competition that serves as a warm-up for Wimbledon.

In a nod to the long-held rumors that she would be returning to play, Williams posted a video on her X account Monday “good news travels fast” as she walks onto a tennis court to the sound of phone dings. “I gotta change my number,” she says as her phone blows up.

Williams, 44, last played in 2022 when she retired after a third-round loss to Ajla Tomljanović at the US Open. It was just a few weeks after she announced she was “evolving away from tennis.” However, murmurs of a possible return got louder in recent months, after she re-entered into the International Tennis Integrity Association’s drug testing pool last December.

Then, Williams denied reports of a comeback, saying “Omg yall I’m NOT coming back. This wildfire is crazy.” In January, on the Today show, she said her return “not a yes or no” and that she’d “see what happens,” before dodging further questions on the matter.

Rumors of Williams’s comeback at the Queen’s Club first surfaced on May 28, when U.S. Open champion Andy Roddick said on his Served podcast that she’d play doubles with Canadian WTA world No. 9 Victoria Mboko next month.

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