Victoria Mboko, the doubles partner of Serena Williams, will miss Wimbledon because of a knee injury sustained during a match at Queen’s Club. The 19-year-old Mboko slipped and appeared to strain her knee during a match against Karolina Pliskova.

Mboko wrote on Instagram, ‘Unfortunately, my fall on Wednesday caused an injury to the MCL on my left knee, which sadly means I will miss the remainder of the grass season. This unfortunately means Wimbledon too, a tournament I had been so looking forward to playing this year.’

Williams and Mboko had won their opening doubles match, in Williams’ first professional match since the 2022 U.S. Open. Mboko gave a special thanks to Williams ‘for giving me this incredible opportunity to play alongside you. I learnt so much from you and am so sorry our tournament came to an end prematurely, but I hope we can play together again soon and finish what we started.’

Original reporting: Texarkana Gazette — read the source article.