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- VIDEO Wimbledon: Williams and Murray 'dream team' brings double the joy to SW19
By Michael Da Silva/DW
Wimbledon 2019 | Serena Williams & Andy Murray (Getty Images/AFP/A. Dennis)
With 42 Grand Slam titles and six Olympic gold medals between them, Serena Williams and Andy Murray are lighting up the mixed doubles at Wimbledon. Next they face the top seeds, but the tennis giants are just having fun.
There's an element of fun to Serena Williams and Andy Murray's foray into mixed doubles at Wimbledon this year.
With Murray still on the road to recovery from a potentially career-ending injury, the doubles has been a liberating experience for him and a stepping stone towards a full scale return to the singles tour, potentially as soon as next month's US Open in New York.
For Williams, it's just a whole lot of fun. She was asked by Murray if she'd like to join him and she said "why not?". Following the carneval atmosphere that accompanied the novelty of their first round victory over Alexa Guarachi and German Andreas Mies, each pairing that faces Williams/Murray - or 'MuRena' as Williams has named them - are somewhat honored to share the court with two huge figures in the game.
As they've started to get a sense of what each other does and second guess each other's movements, the pairing are starting to look less like mixed doubles imposters and more like a force to be reckoned with.
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