Serena Williams to return to action February

Former world number one Serena Williams will come back to the tennis courts one month from now for the U.S. in their Fed Cup initially round tie against the Netherlands.

The United States Tennis Association (USTA) uncovered this on Tuesday.


Williams has not played a WTA competition since she won the Australian Open title a year ago and avoided the current year's opening Grand Slam.

This was after worries about her wellness four months in the wake of bringing forth her first kid.

She has played once since grabbing her Open-time record 23rd Grand Slam in Melbourne a year ago.

Serena lost to Roland Garros champion Jelena Ostapenko in a display coordinate in Abu Dhabi last December.

The 36-year-old American will be joined by more seasoned sister Venus Williams and world number nine CoCo Vandeweghe with a fourth player to be declared one week from now.

The February 10 to February 11 attach is to be played on an indoor hard court in Asheville, North Carolina.

The U.S. beat Belarus a year ago for a record-broadening eighteenth Fed Cup title, their first in 17 years.