WASHINGTON (AP) -- Three days after losing to her sister in tennis' showcase event, Serena Williams awoke Tuesday morning at her part-time home in Paris. She flew to London, where she had a layover of a few hours, then hopped a trans-Atlantic flight in which she "slept pretty much the whole way." Upon arrival in the nation's capital, she made a brief appearance at a youth tennis clinic and then held a news conference to promote the final duty of her very long day: her debut with the Washington Kastles of World Team Tennis. "It's kind of weird, but I'm still going," said Williams, whose body clock was closing in on midnight at the news conference -- with still a couple of hours to go before she was scheduled to take the court. This was not the usual routine for a professional athlete preparing for competition, but the WTT will...
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