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Serena Williams passed another stage on the path to a possible comeback to professional tennis, being listed Monday by the sport’s drug-testing organization as eligible to return to competition on February 22.
That is six months after the 23-time grand slam singles champion initially registered with the International Tennis Integrity Agency.
Williams, who is 44, was listed on the ITIA website’s reinstatement page Monday, a development first reported by Bounces.
What was not immediately known was when or where – or, truly, whether – Williams actually will play again.
When it was revealed last year that Williams…