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Odds are that Serena Williams won\u2019t win Wimbledon. <\/p>\n

But then, Williams has beaten the odds \u2014 and most of her competitors \u2014 for the better part of three decades, which is why millions will be watching her return to competitive singles at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club this week.<\/p>\n

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At 44, Williams hasn\u2019t played a competitive singles match in nearly four years. The tournament announced last weekend that the 23-time Grand Slam singles winner would take a wild-card entry into the singles competition. Serena and her sister, Venus, had already received wild-card entries into the women\u2019s doubles tournament, which they have won six times, most recently in 2016.<\/p>\n

Speculation about her return to singles action abounded after Williams announced that she would play doubles in grass tournaments that lead up to Wimbledon. The question was less if than when \u2014 whether she would wait until the hardcourt U.S. Open, which she has won six times, or resume her career on the grass at Wimbledon, where she has won seven singles titles.<\/p>\n

To those wondering why, or why now, Williams offered an intriguing comment during a press conference earlier this month: \u201cI don\u2019t need to win,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ve won more than most people have in their whole lives. I don\u2019t have anything to lose. Everything is just a gain.\u201d <\/p>\n

Is this next chapter of her legendary career really about her children, ages 8 and 2, seeing her play, or is one of the game\u2019s greatest competitors driven to take one last stab at tying or surpassing Margaret Court\u2019s record for the most women\u2019s singles Grand Slam titles?<\/p>\n

Either way, Williams\u2019 timing is likely an indictment of the current crop of women\u2019s tennis stars. <\/p>\n

After all, if Williams thought the women\u2019s game had produced a dynasty-level force in her absence, she might have stayed on the sidelines. But no single player has dominated the landscape in recent years. Champions come and go with remarkable frequency.<\/p>\n

Thirty-six Grand Slam tournaments have been played since Williams last won a slam (the 2017 Australian Open, when she was pregnant with her first child). There have been 18 different winners in those 36 events. Some would call that parity. For Williams, it\u2019s an opportunity. Yes, Iga Swiatek has won six and Aryna Sabalenka has won four, but that would hardly signal invincibility to someone with Williams\u2019 competitive spirit. <\/p>\n

Speaking of Swiatek, Williams could face last year\u2019s Wimbledon women\u2019s champion if she reaches the third round. But first, Williams will face the world\u2019s 53rd-ranked player, Maya Joint. For perspective: Williams won her first seven slams before the 20-year-old Australian was even born.<\/p>\n

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For all the adjectives that could aptly describe Williams\u2019 competitive dominance, there are realities of mortality that simply can\u2019t be ignored. Williams is trying to become the oldest winner ever of a singles slam event.\u00a0The last such winner was 35 years old. That someone? Serena Williams. <\/p>\n

There is a reason Novak Djokovic\u2019s last slam title was in 2023. Certainly, Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz burst onto the men\u2019s scene, but the physical limitations that come with being in his late 30s began to catch up to Djokovic. At 39, he is still one of the world\u2019s best players, but he, too, has found the passage of time impossible to ignore. And Williams is five years older. <\/p>\n

To win Wimbledon, Williams would have to win seven consecutive matches. As of Friday afternoon, she was a 55-1 long shot on FanDuel. For a 44-year-old who hasn\u2019t played competitive singles since 2022, those are surprisingly respectable odds. They speak to the esteem with which she is held even at such an uncertain stage.<\/p>\n

There are some positives for Williams going into the tournament: She is far slimmer than she was at the U.S. Open in 2022. (She announced last year that she was taking the GLP-1 drug Zepbound, managed through Ro, a telehealth company for which Williams is a paid ambassador and her husband is an investor.) She\u2019s going to need the ability to chase down balls as opponents try to test her endurance. Another positive? Women\u2019s tennis is best two out of three sets, less taxing than the men\u2019s best of five. <\/p>\n

Another data point to watch in this comeback quest: How often we see her play this summer could be a clue as to how seriously Williams is trying to regain her top form. If she takes wild-card entries for other top-tier WTA tournaments leading into and beyond the U.S. Open, it would suggest this isn\u2019t just a lark. <\/p>\n

Ultimately, there is no downside for tennis in a Williams comeback. An enormous fan favorite, she\u2019s going to draw crowds wherever and whenever she plays. <\/p>\n

That said, the smart money says Williams won\u2019t win Wimbledon. She didn\u2019t win a Grand Slam in the five years after her 2017 Australian Open win. She didn\u2019t reach a slam final in her last three years playing competitive singles. But this is about more than whether she bucks the odds of one slam. How many of us would have killed to have one extra season with Kobe, Gretzky, Jeter or Montana? We salivate when we think Tiger Woods might tee up again in a golf major.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re getting that now with Serena. We should enjoy this run for whatever it is and however long it lasts.<\/p>\n

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