There are two doubles wildcards available for the tournament at Queen’s, and one is reserved for a team which includes a former world number one, a Grand Slam champion of the past 10 years or a current top-30 player.
WIlliams has never liked the word retirement, preferring instead to say she was “evolving away” from tennis in 2022.
She lost to Australia’s Ajla Tomljanovic in the third round of the 2022 US Open, in what the world thought would be her final match.
Williams had reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open the previous year, and won her last Grand Slam singles title in Melbourne in 2017 at the age of 35.
Her potential return comes amid months of speculation and several interviews about her weight loss.
Last year, Williams told the Today Show in the US about losing 31lb (14kg) over the previous eight months.
She said had to look at her extra weight as “an opponent”. Despite “training five hours a day” and “running, walking, biking, stair climbing,” she told the show she had no other choice but to “try something different”.
Williams would not say which weight loss drug she was taking, although she had just become a spokesperson for Ro, a company which sells GLP-1 brands like Wegovy and Zepbound (known as Mounjaro in the UK) through its weight-loss programme. Her husband, Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian, is also an investor.
Williams said she was now seeing the benefit of her hard work at the gym, was training for a half-marathon and “running farther than I ever had”.
In a follow-up interview on the Today Show in January she said she was “going to see what happens” over a return.
