Serena Williams: 'If I can't bring Olympia, I won't enter Tokyo Olympics'

The 23-time Major champion Serena Williams will compete at this week's Rome Open, entering the court for the first time since the Australian Open semi-final defeat to Naomi Osaka.

Serena trained in France at her coach Patrick Mouratoglou in the last couple of weeks, preparing for Rome and Roland Garros and feeling excited about competing again after almost three months. The American feels ready for another fresh start, feeling good about her game ahead of Roland Garros and Wimbledon, still chasing that elusive 24th Major title.

Asked about the Olympics, Serena said she can't think about Tokyo at the moment, with so many things going on in these troubled times. The American confirmed that she won't be traveling to Tokyo if she can't bring her daughter Olympia with her, never spending an entire day without her daughter and not planning to do that this summer.

"We had very intense several weeks of training. "I feel good, hoping for some good encounters here in Rome ahead of a Major event, which always makes me excited. I don't do much sport content, so I feel like people wonder if I'm playing. I have to say I always am, you just don't see it. I don't show what I do, and I don't always show my cards.

It's good to start fresh, but it's also hard at the same point. I haven't spent 24 hours without Olympia, so that kind of answers the question itself; we're best friends. I haven't really thought much about Tokyo because it was supposed to be last year, and now it's this year, and then there is this pandemic and so much to think about. Then there are Majors; it's just a lot. I have really been taking it one day at a time to a fault, and I definitely need to figure out my next moves," Serena Williams said.