Serena Williams made her grand return to competitive tennis this weekend, teaming up with sister Venus Williams in a doubles match at the Fed Cup in Asheville, North Carolina. She lost, but considering she had a baby only five months ago, and I keep putting off going for a run because I don’t feel like washing my sports bra, it seems like she’s still doing just fine.
The Williams sisters lost to 6-2 6-3 to Lesley Kerkhove and Demi Schuurs of the Netherlands in the Fed Cup’s first round on Sunday. It was the first competitive match Serena Williams played since she won last year’s Australian Open while pregnant. Last month, she said she wouldn’t be competing in this year’s Australian Open because she was “not where I personally want to be,” having lost a match against Jelena Ostapenko at an exhibition event in Abu Dhabi in December. That was three months after Williams gave birth to daughter Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr., who attended Sunday’s match clad in a very stylish American flag headband.