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Venus returns while Serena remains sidelined

By Bonnie DeSimone
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, May 8, 2006

The Williams sisters resurfaced last week, thousands of miles apart, four months after their appearance at the Australian Open. For the first time in a while, the siblings' competitive paths, so often parallel or intertwined, diverged sharply. Amid growing speculation, Serena appeared via a statement distributed by the WTA Tour, while Venus, with absolutely no advance fanfare, walked on court in Warsaw, Poland, and won her first two matches at the J&S Cup. Serena's paragraph-long declaratio ...

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