Serena Williams is on a long layoff from competitive tennis, but on March 5 she is expected to play in a new short-form tournament in New York.
Williams, who gave birth to a daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr., on Sept. 1, could return to the tennis tour somewhere else before that, but she has at least committed to appear in a one-day tiebreaker event at Madison Square Garden.
“She will 100 percent be there,” said Felicity Barnard, the chief executive of Tie Break Tens, who said both Serena and her older sister Venus Williams confirmed several months ago that they would attend the event.