Serena Williams has been cleared to make a sensational comeback as it has been revealed that the tennis icon will be eligible to enter tournaments again later this month.<\/p>\n
Williams\u2019<\/a> name has been added to the reinstatements list on the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) website, with a reinstatement date of 22 February.<\/p>\n Players who have retired from tennis must make themselves available for six months of anti-doping testing in order to return to sanctioned events, and Williams will have completed this period in just 12 days from now.<\/p>\n Despite this potential return date, Williams is yet to confirm whether she will make a comeback.<\/p>\n Williams made her farewell at the 2022 US Open after she announced that she would \u201cevolve away\u201d from tennis rather than using the word retirement.<\/p>\n The former world No 1 won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, and she is regarded by many to be the greatest women\u2019s tennis player of all time.<\/p>\n Serena Williams refuses to rule out comeback as she is asked directly in telling interview<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Former world No 5 who beat Serena Williams gives verdict on icon\u2019s potential comeback<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Want more from Tennis365? Add us as a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a> for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n In December, Williams sparked rumours that she could come out of retirement when it was revealed she had re-entered the ITIA\u2019s International Registered Testing Pool (IRTP).<\/p>\n After the news emerged, Williams took to X\/Twitter to respond to the \u201cwildfire\u201d by insisting she would not be making a comeback.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m NOT coming back. This wildfire is crazy,\u201d Williams wrote.<\/p>\n However, during an appearance on the Today<\/em> show last month, Williams refused to rule out returning to tennis when asked about it directly by host Savannah Guthrie.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m just having fun and enjoying my life right now\u2026 I don\u2019t know, I\u2019m just gonna see what happens,\u201d said the American.<\/p>\n Asked about re-entering the anti-doping testing pool, Williams replied: \u201cDid I re-enter? I don\u2019t know if I was out. Listen, I can\u2019t discuss this (laughs).\u201d<\/p>\n Given she has been cleared to compete from 22 February, the first WTA Tour events that Williams could play are the WTA 250s in Austin, Texas and Merida, Mexico, which will begin on 23 February.<\/p>\n If Williams does return, though, it feels more likely that she would choose to make her comeback on a bigger stage, like one of the WTA 1000 tournaments in Indian Wells or Miami in March.<\/p>\n READ NEXT: WTA Rankings: Sara Bejlek +63, Emma Raducanu & Alex Eala +5, Elena Rybakina drops points<\/a> The post Serena Williams learns date she can return to tennis ahead of potential comeback<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Serena Williams has been cleared to make a sensational comeback as it has been revealed that the tennis icon will be eligible to enter tournaments again later this month. Williams\u2019 name has been added to the reinstatements list on the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) website, with a reinstatement date of 22 February. Players who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Tennis News<\/h2>\n
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