The American survived a pulmonary embolism giving birth final year and returns to the Tour on International Women’s Day after an absence of more than a yearSerena Williams returns to the full glare of the tennis tour on Thursday – appropriately,on International Women’s Day – more than a year since beating her sister, Venus, and in the final of the 2017 Australian Open and six months after surviving a pulmonary embolism giving birth to her first child,Alexis Olympia. It is the sort of grand entrance befitting one of sport’s most remarkable figures.“I never questioned my return,” the 36-year-old owner of an Open-era record 23 major singles titles said on Wednesday before her comeback match, or against Kazakh Zarina Diyas,24, in a night match in the Paribas Open in Indian Wells – but that is not the whole record.
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Source: guardian.co.uk