Tennis Champ, Serena Williams will return to action next month in the United States’ Fed Cup first round tie against the Netherlands.
The United States Tennis Association made the announcement on Tuesday,
adding that the 36-year-old American will be joined by older sister
Venus and world number nine CoCo Vandeweghe with a fourth player to be
announced next week for the Feb. 10-11 tie on an indoor hard court in Asheville, North Carolina.
Williams
who has not played a WTA tournament since she won the Australian Open
title last year and skipped this year’s opening grand slam given
concerns about her fitness four months after giving birth to her first
child.
She
has played once since picking up her Open-era record 23rd grand slam in
Melbourne last year, losing to Roland Garros champion Jelena Ostapenko
in an exhibition match in Abu Dhabi last December.