It has been more than six weeks since Williams last competed — when she beat Victoria Azarenka in the final of the US Open in New York — and there had been, she volunteered, some strange twinges because that.
“I felt like I had practiced too much, and if I hit another practice ball I’m going nuts,” she said. “I was, like, if I have another practice day, I don’t know if I can handle it.”



