Serena Williams appears to be plotting her return to the court.

The 23-time Grand Slam champion “has applied for reinstatement to tennis and has been added back into the [drug] testing pool,” Bounces reported Tuesday — three years after she called it a career .

Though Williams, 44, is still listed on the International Tennis Integrity Agency’s list of retired players as of Tuesday, Bounce noted in its report how “names only appear on that ITIA reinstatements list once their six months back on the testing pool have been completed , not when the six months are still ongoing.”

Her name also appeared on a document in October indicating the players in the ITIA’s registered testing pool, which, by estimation, would put Williams “on track to be eligible to return again by April 2026 at

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