Fed Cup: Comeback on track: Serena Williams joins USA squad

Serena Williams could make her official comeback in the tennis circus at the beginning of February after her one-year break for babies. The 23-times Grand Slam winner is in the preliminary line-up of the American Fed Cup team for the game in Asheville/North Carolina against the Netherlands (10/11). February).

So far, the 36-year-old has been returning to India for the WTA tournament in Indian Wells (from 7. March). Williams had her last official match last year in the finals of the Australian Open against her sister Venus (37). Daughter Alexis Olympia was born at the beginning of September. Shortly before New Year’s Eve, Williams tested her form in Abu Dhabi against French Open winner Jelena Ostapenko, but decided after a close defeat against defending her title in Melbourne.

In addition to Serena, Venus Williams and ninth in the world rankings, Coco Vandeweghe belong to the provisional squad of last year’s winner. For the last time so far, Serena Williams had been in Italy for the Fed Cup team of the USA in April 2015. Germany will play on 10/11. In the first round of the World Group in Minsk against the previous year’s finalist Belarus, too.