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Serena Williams will find it hard to continue balancing family and tennis, says Kim Clijsters

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Serena Williams will be thinking long and hard about how far she extends her comeback to tennis, believes ex-world No. 1 Kim Clijsters.

Williams lost to France's Harmony Tan in a dramatic three-set encounter in the first round of Wimbledon as the 23-time major champ made her long-awaited return after a year out.

Ad/> It therefore wasn't the outcome Williams was looking for, and Clijsters believes that the American's solution to reach her best level again is to play more matches — which will, as a consequence, take the 40-year-old away from her young daughter, Olympia.

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