CENTRE COURT — At least she practised.
Maria Sakkari and Marta Kostyuk can testify to that fact, having hit with Serena Williams in the run-up to Wimbledon, and having watched some of those sessions, I thought that Williams would be competitive in the main draw.
And she was, to a point, beaten in over two hours by a respectable scoreline of 6-3 6-7 6-3.
But did she really expect to turn up to one of the biggest tournaments in the world after four years out of the game, play a grand total of zero competitive singles matches and give a good account of herself?
Williams’s daughters Olympia and Adira watch their mother in action on Centre Court (Photo: Reuters)
