Venus Williams declares comeback plan aged 43 as tennis legend continues profession
Venus Wiliams has introduced that she plans to make one other tennis comeback on the age of 43. The veteran has performed sparingly over the previous couple of years resulting from damage and was restricted to only 10 matches in 2023.
The seven-time main winner is deep into the twilight part of her illustrious profession and her ardour for the sport nonetheless burns vibrant, to the extent she plans to proceed enjoying in 2024. Williams is ready to overlook the January 2024 Australian Open however has pinpointed the US occasions of Indian Wells and the Miami Open in March for her return to the court docket.
“I am targeting March, that’s when the tournaments go back to the States, so my goal is to be up and running when tournaments come back to the US,” she stated. “I tried my best to recover for the US Open. I did not reach my form so now I am just resting until I get back.”
The former World No. 1 uploaded a video to her YouTube channel updating fans on the tumultuous year she has had. After six months out, she returned to action on the grass courts at the Libema Open in June, beating Camila Giorgi in a classic match at the Birmingham Open before losing to Jelena Ostapenko.
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Her keep at Wimbledon was a brief one as she succumbed to Elina Svitlona within the first spherical, and appeared to slide and injure her knee through the contest. Venus recovered and performed on the Canadian Open and Cincinnati Open a month later, however determined to finish her season after a heavy defeat to qualifier Greet Minnen within the first spherical of the US Open.
Reviewing her summer season, Williams stated: “I went to Wimbledon and sadly slipped in the third game of the match and really got injured. I spent the whole summer pretty injured with my knee, like really struggling with it.
“I didn’t want to miss the US Open, made it there, but definitely not my best performance after so much time off after Wimbledon. So, I decided not to play anymore the rest of the year and just give my knee a chance to heal.
“What was super interesting is once I just sat down, I felt better, I would say. After the US Open, I would say maybe like four weeks later I got up, I remember it was a Sunday and I got up and I was like ‘Oh my God! I’m not in pain’.
“Just like pain from sitting around, like my knee hurts, my knee is swelling every day. It’s very difficult to play tennis or any sport when you have like the swelling cycle when your body won’t stop swelling.”
The tennis icon stated she struggled to get the swelling down which induced her to lose vary of movement, which left her unable to coach. But Williams is now progressing properly and in 2024 she’s going to register her thirtieth 12 months as a tennis skilled.