Serena Williams will make her return to tennis after missing almost a year with injury and illnesss, taking a wild card into next week’s Eastbourne grass-court tournament, officials said Tuesday.
The one-time number one who now stands 25 after her months of inactivity, joins her sister Venus in the ATP-WTA field at the English south coast beach town.
Serena last played as she won a fourth Wimbledon title last July, before suffering a foot injury which required surgery. In February, she had to deal with a blood clot in her lung suffer.
