After sitting out of competitive tennis for nearly a year, Serena Williams plans to return next month to play for her country.
The United States Tennis Association announced on Tuesday that Williams would join her sister, Venus Williams, on the American Fed Cup team for its first-round tie against the Netherlands on Feb. 10-11, in Asheville, N.C.
Williams’ last match was a victory over Venus Williams in the final of the Australian Open in January 2017. She gave birth to a daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr., on Sept. 1 and revealed in an article in Vogue Magazine that she had several complications during labor that required surgical procedures, forcing her to spend six weeks in bed.