Williams was pregnant when she won her 23rd major crown last January in Melbourne. The defending Fed Cup champion Americans will play host to the Netherlands in a first-round tie February 10-11 on an indoor hardcourt at Asheville, North Carolina. This will be the first time in two years that either Williams sister has been on the US Fed Cup squad. Serena last played Fed Cup in April 2015, when she won two singles matches in a World Group playoff loss to Italy in Brindisi. Venus, ranked fifth, won two singles matches in her most recent Fed Cup appearance in a 2016 tie against Poland in Hawaii.

Source: Daily Nation January 24, 2018 03:11 UTC