SERENA WILLIAMS HAVE JUST CONFIRMED WHEN SHE IS COMING BACK – SERENA TO WIN ANOTHER TROPHY IN 2022?

John McEnroe has Serena Williams to win another major trophy in 2022. The 40-year-old hasn’t featured on the WTA in several months with her last competitive match in the first round at Wimbledon last year. The American missed the US Open and was hopeful of returning for the Australian Open.

But announced late in 2021 that she was not ready to participate at the highest level. That withdrawal meant the former world No 1 hasn’t won a Grand Slam title since the 2017 Australian Open. Now ranked No 59, Williams is not yet clear if she will be making a comeback in 2022.

But McEnroe believes this is the year for Williams to shine again. “Serena looks as though she is still training and trying to get herself ready and absolutely wants to try and break the record,” seven-time Grand Slam champion McEnroe told Eurosport.

“She seems very motivated still and I anticipate her coming back and making a real run at Wimbledon or trying to do one more US Open.” Winning a major this year would see her equal Margaret Court’s all-time record of 24 Grand Slams.

McEnroe added: “She is desperate for one more even though it doesn’t change anything in my book. She is one of the greatest athletes, male or female, that has played the sport, so of course we would like to see her play again, but she is also 40 and doesn’t have the fear factor that she once had amongst the younger players, so that makes it more difficult.”

Recently, Williams posted a picture on her Instagram, where Olympia and she are seen striking a pose, sitting back to back. Williams is wearing the black-red and pink outfit by Nike that she had worn at the Australian Open 2021. Caroline Wozniacki, who is great friends with Williams off-court, reacted to the post with ‘heart’ and ‘heart-eyes’ emojis.

Serena’s coach Patrick Mouratoglou also commented on the picture, saying it was an “Incredible pic!” Recently on Twitter, Serena replied to a tweet saying “Coming!!!!” when a Twitter user asked her when she will be back. This sent Twitterati into a frenzy, as fans started to speculate whether this was indicative of Serena’s return to the circuit.

The post with Olympia also had the caption “next”. Fans of the American superstar were hopeful of her return in the hard-court season at the Australian Open. But they were disappointed when Williams announced that her recovery was not quite done yet.