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Serena Williams returns to tennis after 1,375 days — and Queen's Club already feels different
A 1,375-day absence ended on Tuesday at Queen's, where Serena Williams stepped back onto a WTA court. The return is less a curiosity than a stress test of how the tour absorbs a generational figure returning in mid-career decline.
This Monexus piece leans on the BBC's match report and the separate BBC profile for the structural facts, and on ESPN's analysis for the framing of the return as an open question rather than a settled comeback. The wire coverage is largely celebratory in register; we have held the line on treating the result as one data point, not a verdict.
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