Mum Serena 'can fix everything', claims Li from buzai232's blog

Chinese great Li Na backed Serena Williams to pull off a quick-fire return to tennis after the birth of her first child — but said there was no way she could have rushed back to the sport. Williams, 36, has spoken of her "outrageous" plans to defend her title at the Australian Open in January, less than five months after giving birth to her baby daughter on September 1. Li, who announced she was pregnant two months after retiring in 2014, said she wouldn't have been able to leave her own young daughter, adding that she had probably only hit a tennis ball 10 times since quitting the sport and becoming a mother.

"Serena can fix everything," Li said, referring to the challenge of being a tennis-playing parent. "But if I think about myself, I couldn't do that. With a baby so young, I couldn't leave them." Asked if she missed tennis, the two-time Grand Slam-winner told reporters at the Wuhan Open that she hankered after the "fight and competition" but that she had left that side of herself behind.