- 2017 champion has not played since Wimbledon in June
- ‘ I am not where I need to be physically to compete’
Serena Williams will not play at next month’s Australian Open, the 23-times grand slam singles champion saying her level of fitness is not good enough to compete at the first major tournament of 2022.
Williams, who won the last of her seven Australian Open titles in 2017, had an injury-disrupted season and has not played since she limped out of her first-round match at Wimbledon in June due to the leg injury.