Serena not decided on whether to play remaining Slams

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Former world number one Serena Williams says she has not yet decided whether she will compete at this year's remaining three Grand Slams.

The American will make her competitive return to tennis at the Fed Cup this weekend after giving birth to her first child in September.

The 36-year-old missed the Australian Open in January to give her more time to recover from the birth.

Asked whether she will be at the French Open in May she said: "I don't know."

She added: "Right now I'm focused on this weekend and after that I'll figure out what it might be."

The United States play the Netherlands in North Carolina on Sunday.

Williams' victory at the Australian Open in 2017 was her 23rd Grand Slam title - the most in the Open era, and one shy of the all-time record held by Australian Margaret Court.

But Williams has not played a WTA tournament since that win in Melbourne and has revealed she was bedridden for six weeks and had to have surgery after her daughter was delivered by emergency caesarean section.

"I have long-term goals obviously. Right now my main goal is just to stay in the moment," said Williams, who played an exhibition match in December.

"It goes unsaid 25 [Grand Slams] is obviously something that I would love, but I'd hate to limit myself."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/43012387

 

[MasturB]

She can be competitive at Wimby. Still 5 months away with proper training.

 

[Mainad]

She can be competitive at Wimby. Still 5 months away with proper training.

She seems to be playing less and less. Now it seems even the Slams are no longer a given for her!

I wonder if she will actually play Fed Cup despite her assurances? With Serena these days, you can never be sure she will actually play anything until we actually see her standing on court with her racquet in hand!!

 

[Deleted member 756486]

I think she’s done.

(I’ve been saying that for years but eventually I’ll be right)

 

[tacou]

Interesting. The "one match/tournament at a time" attitude is pretty common, but what reason would she have to doubt her participation in Paris, let alone New York 6+ months away. hmmm.

 

[TenS_Ace]

Sad part is, she could just train for the SLAM she wants to win and beat the pants off any of her opponents. I mean that in a nice way IIRC she has all the SLAM's

 

[bigserving]

She seems to be playing less and less. Now it seems even the Slams are no longer a given for her!

I wonder if she will actually play Fed Cup despite her assurances? With Serena these days, you can never be sure she will actually play anything until we actually see her standing on court with her racquet in hand!!

Apparently you don't keep up with current events but, News flash. Serena just had her first baby.

 

[Mainad]

Apparently you don't keep up with current events but, News flash. Serena just had her first baby.

Apparently you don't keep up with them either. She said she would play the Aussie Open and then withdrew. Now she wil not commit to playing any of the others. She has said she will play Fed Cup and we wait to see if she will. If the baby was stopping her from playing she could have just said that in the first place. Even before she got pregnant she had started to play less and less.

 

[yokied]

So she had a terrible birth, additional surgery, emergency caesarean (which basically tears all the core muscles) and tried going back out on court less than three months later to play an exho? Dangerously idiotic move. It's not the same as coming back a bit prematurely on an ankle injury. My wife had a textbook natural birth, is a quality athlete (not ATG though), took a full six months off and was still a mess when she started again ... and her sport doesn't involve QUITE the same huge amount of core rotation that tennis does. That is just dumbbbbb.

I'd be amazed if she wins anything before June, and that's being generous. Given she lost six weeks to post-birth surgery and recovery, probably even later.

 

[Deon Sanders]

She doesnt have anything else to prove really

I can see her packing it up for good. Nothing wrong with that

 

[True Fanerer]

Maybe she's waiting on Roger to catch up before she comes back .

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Hmm, was expecting her to play Miami. Might as well skip clay season and just target Wimbledon where she really doesn't have any major threat if she's in good form.