Wimbledon's done, so what now? Our biggest questions leading to US Open

Posted by kuailai99 on July 18th, 2018

From the jump, it was a wacky fortnight, with unprecedented upsets, marathon matches and a resurgence by some of the sport's greatest stars. Also: royals!To get more tennis news, you can visit shine news official website.

Although this Grand Slam is in the rearview, there is much tennis yet to be played this season. Here are five questions as we depart All England and prepare for the hard-court swing.This is the question after every match Serena Williams has contested since returning from maternity leave in March (all 14 of them). Where does she believe she is in her comeback?

Fifty percent of Serena-at-her-best Serena? Seventy-five percent? Can you put a percentage on it for us, please?! If Williams did anything over the past two weeks, it was bury the question of whether she will be able to return to the level she was at before she announced to the world that she was pregnant, even if she hasn't arrived there yet. Her power is there; so, too, is her serve, which topped out at 125 mph in the final against Angelique Kerber. Williams also showed much-improved footwork, speed and overall fitness. She also went into the women's final carrying something just as important: the belief that she could win.

At some point, everyone else started to believe, too. "To hear people say, 'Oh, she's a favorite,'" Williams said after her semifinal win. "Like, the last 16 months, I've played in four tournaments and was carrying another human for half that time. It's like, 'C'mon, guys, this is pretty awesome.'" It's safe to say that after experiencing only the seventh Grand Slam final loss of her career, Williams is more motivated than ever to reach another major final, tick off those No. 23 and No. 24 Slams and ditch that Open era asterisk.

That, too, would be awesome.After testing his surgically repaired right hip in two warm-up events on grass, Murray withdrew from Wimbledon on the eve of the tournament. Working instead as a commentator for the BBC as he continues to recover, he said skipping his home Slam and delaying his return to best-of-five, no-tiebreak tennis was "the smart thing to do." Murray has played in only three tournaments since he reached last year's Wimbledon quarterfinals, but he plans to begin his hard-court bid at the Citi Open in Washington, D.C., at the end of the month. With the US Open looming, the 2012 champ said hard courts provide his best opportunity for a safe return. (He last played on the surface in New York in 2016.) "As soon as I got on the hard courts, I felt better due to the stability of the surface," Murray said. "On grass, you are worried about every step you take. On the hard courts, I felt more comfortable. The impact on the hard courts is greater than the grass, but I feel it'll be a positive for me.