Serena Williams will play her sister Venus in the third round at Indian Wells as she continues her comeback after the birth of her child.<\/p>\n
The 36-year-old American, who was out for 14 months, beat Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands 7-6 (7-5) 7-5 in round two.<\/p>\n
“Everything is a bonus,” said Serena after winning in one hour, 52 minutes on her second match point.<\/p>\n
The sisters last met in the 2017 Australian Open final, when Serena won her 23rd Grand Slam singles title.<\/p>\n
“I would prefer to play someone else, anybody else, literally anybody else, but it has to happen now. So it is what it is,” said Serena.<\/p>\n
Serena was already pregnant with daughter Alexis Olympia, who was born\u00a0on 1 September,\u00a0when she beat Venus 6-4 6-4 in Melbourne.<\/p>\n
Venus beat Sorona Cirstea of Romania in her second-round match 6-3 6-4.<\/p>\n
They will play their 29th competitive match on Monday, with Serena having won 17 of the previous 28.<\/p>\n
“She looked like she never lost a step,” Venus said of her younger sister. “Great way to come back.”<\/p>\n
Defending champion\u00a0Elena Vesnina<\/b>\u00a0of Russia also moved into the third round after she beat American Catherine Bellis 2-6 6-1 6-1.<\/p>\n
Danish second seed\u00a0Caroline Wozniacki<\/b>\u00a0beat Spaniard Lara Arruabarrena 6-4 6-1, while Ukrainian fourth seed\u00a0Elina Svitolina<\/b>\u00a0defeated German Mona Barthel 6-4 6-3.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Serena Williams will play her sister Venus in the third round at Indian Wells as she continues her comeback after the birth of her child. The 36-year-old American, who was out for 14 months, beat Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands 7-6 (7-5) 7-5 in round two. “Everything is a bonus,” said Serena after winning in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":408856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n