{"id":1800939,"date":"2026-03-01T19:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1800939"},"modified":"2026-03-01T19:00:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T16:00:48","slug":"serena-williams-comeback-former-british-star-makes-lavish-claim-over-what-she-can-achieve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1800939","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams comeback: Former British star makes lavish claim over what she can achieve"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"ps-article-content rounded-lg lg:mt-5 lg:border lg:border-card lg:bg-card lg:shadow-primary\">\n<header>\n<h1 class=\"py-4 text-xl font-normal text-title sm:text-2xl\">Serena Williams comeback: Former British star makes lavish claim over what she can achieve<\/h1>\n<div class=\"my-2 flex items-center justify-between\">\n<div class=\"flex items-center\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/author\/kevin-palmer\" 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class=\"ciam-article-t365\">\n<p>Serena Williams is set to make a stunning comeback to tennis in 2026 and in the opinion of one former player turned respected commentator, her expectations should be high.<\/p>\n<p>Williams has not played a competitive match since the 2022 US Open, when he bid an emotional farewell to her American fans at a packed Arthur Ashe Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Now a mother of two small children, the 44-year-old confirmed she is considering a comeback to tennis when she added her name to the doping control list last year, with her eligibility to return confirmed last month.<\/p>\n<p>The debate over where and when Serena will now come back is one of the big talking points in tennis, with former WTA Tour player Naomi Cavaday convinced the 23-time Grand Slam champion will challenge some of the best players in the game when she returns.<\/p>\n<p>Williams is coming back to tennis in great shape after claiming she lost losing 34 pounds with the help of weight loss drugs and now Cavaday is backing the tennis legend to make an impression on the big stages of the sport once again.<\/p>\n<h2>More Tennis News<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/8-richest-tennis-players-world-roger-federer-novak-djokovic-rafael-nadal-serena-williams\">The 8 richest tennis players in the world with Roger Federer the second to crack $1b milestone<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/serena-williams-possible-comeback-events-former-coach-100-certain-return\">Serena Williams\u2019 possible comeback events after former coach says \u2018it\u2019s 100% certain\u2019 she will return<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be quite a spectacle,\u201d said Cavaday, speaking exclusively to Tennis365 at a Sky Sports Tennis event in London.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhenever, wherever it happens, I mean, if she wants to play tournaments, we\u2019ll have her. I\u2019m fascinated by the motivation for it and to how it\u2019s going to go because the problem with Serena\u2019s record is that anything other than winning Slams will be seen as a disappointment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2029Maybe not as far as a failure, but when she came back from having a kid, I think making the finals was a success. No one saw it as a failure, but, you know, she\u2019s here to win Slam. So if she\u2019s coming back, everyone\u2019s going to be expecting her to be winning Slams, not losing quarters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s in a very different position than her sister Venus, who\u2019s clearly just playing because she enjoys it and doesn\u2019t really worry that she\u2019s losing in the first round a lot. But for Serena, I don\u2019t know, I don\u2019t know where this ends up if she loses early and she\u2019s not a threat and she\u2019s getting chewed up by players in the top 10.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf that happens, it\u2019s gonna be rough for her, but my expectations of what she can achieve are very high.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2029I think her level walks to top 10, even after so long away and at her age. She might not necessarily get into the top 10 of the rankings as she probably won\u2019t play enough tournaments, but her level could be right there with top players quickly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you stick her against somebody ranked 20, I don\u2019t think it\u2019ll be a problem. She\u2019ll have the occasional difficulty, I\u2019m sure, along the way but outside of Aryna Sabalenka and [Elena] Rybakina, she will be fancy her chances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCoco Gauff is having a new problems, there is a lot of talk and around the issues in Iga Swiatek\u2019s team and that\u2019s gonna be going on throughout the whole season. Then I look at players like [Jasmine] Paolini and I think Serena would be able to beat players like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Want more from Tennis365? Add us as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=tennis365.com\">a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a> for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Williams has yet to confirm if she is coming back to play doubles with her sister Venus of whether she will launch a full scale return to tennis, with a possible appearance at her beloved Wimbledon this summer.<\/p>\n<p>What is certain is whatever happens in this story, the tennis world will be watching when the player widely regarded as the best woman ever to pick ups a racket makes her comeback.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/emma-raducanu-sponsors-critics-mark-petchey\">Emma Raducanu: Why the critics are missing the point when they question the British No 1<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Watch the WTA 1000 Indian Wells and Miami Open tournaments live on Sky Sports Tennis in the UK and Ireland<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serena Williams comeback: Former British star makes lavish claim over what she can achieve Kevin Palmer 01 Mar 2026 7:00 PM Serena Williams on a talk show Serena Williams is set to make a stunning comeback to tennis in 2026 and in the opinion of one former player turned respected commentator, her expectations should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,249],"class_list":["post-1800939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-tennis365-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1800939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1800939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1800939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1800939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}