'I'm coming for the trophy'
Fresh from attending the Royal wedding, Serena Williams will take aim at the upstarts who have been honeymooning at the majors in her absence when she makes her long-awaited Grand Slam return at Roland Garros.
Should she win a fourth Roland Garros, it will take her level with Margaret Court's all-time Grand Slam record of 24 majors.
But there are question marks over her fitness and readiness for the 2018 tournament which starts on Sunday.
Her last appearance at a Slam was at the 2017 Australian Open which she won while pregnant.
Having then missed the rest of the season as she gave birth to daughter Alexis Olympia in September, Williams's world ranking has slumped to 454 from its dizzy heights of undisputed number one.
"I'm not just coming back to come back. I'm coming back to win," she said defiantly in a HBO documentary 'Being Serena' which aired last week.
"Serena will play the French Open to win it," her longtime coach Patrick Mouratoglou, who oversaw her first training session on Court Philippe Chatrier at Roland Garros on Sunday, told the WTA Tour.
"Can she do it? Serena can achieve anything -- after being her coach for six years, I'm even more sure of that statement.
"She obviously comes back to win and the wait has been long, so she will probably start Roland Garros with a mix of stress and excitement because playing those events is the reason why she made such huge efforts to come back."
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