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PARIS: Serena Williams' candidacy to win a 24th Grand Slam title was again thwarted on Saturday, June 1, as she had her first major league appearance in nearly five years, prompting new questions. on its long-term future at the highest level.
His 6-27-7-5 loss to Roland Garros in the third round against fellow American Sofia Kenin prevented him once again from breaking the record for Margaret Court's record set between 1960 and 1973.
She will be 38 in September and her 23rd and last Slam triumph was held at the Australian Open in 2017 while she was pregnant.
After giving birth to her daughter Olympia Alexis in September 2017, she returned to play Grand Slam tennis at Roland Garros in 2018, qualifying for the last match of last year where she was to resume her fierce rivalry with Maria Sharapova.
An arm injury torpedo this meeting and blocked his badault against a fourth title in Paris after 2002, 2013 and 2015.
Defeated in the 2018 Wimbledon Final by Angelique Kerber, and in the US Open Championship match, where her appalling collapse overshadowed the triumph under Naomi Osaka, followed.
Her season in Australia, in January, ended in a quarter-final loss to Karolina Pliskova, as she led 5-1 in the final set and held four match points.
From Melbourne, Williams was unable to complete all three tournaments she participated in – she retired to Garbine Muguruza in the third round of Indian Wells, retired after winning a tour in Miami and retired after winning a round on the plateau in Rome due to a right knee injury.
But the American remains defiant about her longevity.
"If we had said that I would only do the third round here, I would have thought that they were lying because I would not expect to be in the third round," he said. Williams after his defeat on Saturday.
Williams said she would again try to match Court's record at Wimbledon in July, where she would pursue an eighth title at the All England Club.
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"I am far enough, but the optimism is that I have not been able to play on the ground as much as I would have done," she said, adding that She could even take a wild in a pre-event Wimbledon event on grbad field.
"At least I can start trying to save time now.
"It was a really grueling season."
Saturday's loss was Williams' first Slams outing since losing to France's Alize Cornet in the third round at Wimbledon in 2014.
This year, Wimbledon will start on July 1st. She therefore has at least four weeks to align her next badault on the historic monument of the Court.
"I'm still working on it and working to make it happen, so I think we'll have enough time, we'll see, but I really hope so," she said.
"I have the impression of having had great races last year, and I hope to be able to continue this momentum this year and continue this way."
"I feel really short of games and I'm just starting to play
"So I have some free time, so maybe I'll step in and get a wildcard on one of those grbad field events and see what happens."
However, after a new confrontation with reality and possible signs for the American star, there are three teenagers among the last 16 at Roland Garros this year.
Amanda Anisimova, just 17 years old, is the youngest woman to qualify for the fourth round since Martina Hingis in 1998.
Kenin, the world number 35 aged 20, was not even born when Williams debuted in Paris in 1998.
However, on Saturday, she had not yet been on the biggest stage of tennis: the Arthur Ashe Court of the US Open in 2017, after losing to Sharapova.
"It's such a nice win for me," said Kenin after his third win over a top-10 player.
"Normally, I do not cry after a game, I had so many emotions playing on Chatrier … I always imagined playing there and winning a match."
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