Tennis fans will be watching the action in next weekend’s Super Bowl very closely – to see if Serena Williams announces a spectacular comeback.

The sport’s greatest female player retired at the 2022 US Open in New York and everyone assumed she had tossed away her racquets for good.

But then the American superstar sparked intrigue about playing again after her name appeared on the International Tennis Integrity Agency’s latest Registered Testing Pool list, which was published in October.