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No French Open seeding for Serena Williams after maternity leave

By Samuel Petrequin and Andrew Dampf

Sports writers Samuel Petrequin, Paris, and Andrew Dampf, Rome, for reporting exclusively that Serena Williams would not be seeded at the French Open following her return from maternity leave. https://bit.ly/2stSq5b

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MAY 31, 2018

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