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This is comeback time for everyone in tennis, and Serena Williams pushed the theme to the extreme on Tuesday.
In her first match in six months, and the first since the coronavirus pandemic began, Williams lost the first set to unseeded Bernarda Pera at the Top Seed Open in Lexington, Ky., and found herself down, 0-40, on her serve at 4-4 in the second.
But Pera, a left-hander who was raised in Croatia and now represents the United States, never got the chance to serve for the match.
There was no crowd to lift Williams.