Serena Williams forced to pull out of Queen's doubles after parner Mboko picks up injury

[p]After nearly four years ‌away, the 44-year-old American great partnered Canadian teenager [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/mboko-victoria/AqVez8TJ/"]‌Mboko[/a] to victory against [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/melichar-nicole/zDMLQaib/"]⁠Nicole ‌Melichar-Martinez[/a] and [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/routliffe-erin/CvDr9J3L/"]Erin Routliffe[/a] in ​front of a sell-out crowd on Tuesday.[/p][p]They ​were scheduled to play Canada's [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/fernandez-leylah-annie/8EI3pJOd/"]Leylah Fernandez[/a] and ⁠Germany's [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/siegemund-laura/ETkoNgxJ/"]​Laura Siegemund[/a] in the quarter-final, but 19-year-old Mboko has been forced to withdraw ‌after slipping painfully during her singles match against Czech Republic's [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/pliskova-karolina/xGn9KNfO/"]Karolina Pliskova[/a] on Wednesday.[/p][p]Mboko had to retire from that match and left the court hobbling and close to ‌tears.[/p][p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/williams-serena/ttsu68nH/"]Williams[/a], who has won ​23 Grand Slam singles ‌titles, will continue her comeback in Berlin next week and could seek a wildcard for the ⁠Wimbledon ⁠championships.[/p][embed guid="ef474b90-092f-4ebc-9bc2-9a797f273796" url="https://x.com/QueensTennis/status/2065014808152261017" social-type="twitter" /]