Leave it to Serena Williams to come back to tennis in style. Williams, a former world No. 1 who hasn’t played since July because of injury and illness, announced on Twitter that she returned to training Tuesday by posting a photo of herself serving in a hot pink full-length body suit. 
 
 “Look who I spotted on the court. Her first day back …” she wrote to her 2.1 million Twitter followers. 
 
 Williams, a 13-time Grand Slam champion, returned to practice in Palm Beach Gardens for the first time since having an emergency procedure for a pulmonary embolism in February. She remains on blood thinners for the blood clots, and she is not taking long plane flights. It is unknown when she will return to the WTA Tour. 
 
 “She was out there hitting balls, and she’s taking it one day at a time,” Williams’ agent, Jill Smoller, said by telephone. “She is progressing well, and the doctors have given her some clearance to do light cardio, but she is not setting any time frame. She will come back when she feels strong and healthy, and it will be in consultation with her doctors.” 
 
 After winning Wimbledon last summer, Williams cut her foot on glass at a restaurant in Germany, and that injury led to two operations to repair tendons. She spent much of the fall and winter in a cast and walking boot, and had the second surgery in October. The immobility of the leg, might have contributed to the blood clots, which were discovered after a flight from New York to Los Angeles. 
 
 Although she hasn’t played since July, Williams is No. 10 in this week’s rankings. She has not withdrawn from the French Open, which begins May 22, but it is more likely her comeback will be later, either at Wimbledon in late June or the U.S. Open in late August. 
 
 Meanwhile, world No. 2 Kim Clijsters also sustained a freak foot accident that likely will keep her out of the French Open. She was at her cousin’s wedding, wearing high heels, and took a bad tumble. Clijsters sustained a severe strain of her medial and lateral ligaments in her right ankle, and torn ligaments in her ankle joint. She is wearing a cast and faces a recovery of “at least four to six weeks,’’ according to her website. 
 
 Sweet win 
 
 Fort Lauderdale’s Ryan Sweeting, 23, who played at St. Thomas Aquinas and the University of Florida, won the first ATP title of his career last week. Entered as a wild card, Sweeting defeated Kei Nishikori 6-4, 7-6 (7-3) in the U.S. Clay Court Championship in Houston. 
 
 Sweeting moved up from No. 93 to No. 71 with the victory. He celebrated the milestone by jumping into the River Oakes Club pool, a tournament tradition. Sweeting, who was born in the Bahamas and moved to Fort Lauderdale at 12, had been 0-4 against Nishikori, including a loss in the Delray Beach quarterfinals in February. 
 
 Teen time 
 
 The U.S. Fed Cup team will rely on 18-year-old Christina McHale and 19-year-old Melanie Oudin this weekend in Stuttgart, Germany, in a world group playoff. McHale, a New Jersey native, trains at the USTA training facility in Boca Raton. Bethanie Mattek-Sands was supposed to play but pulled out because of a hip injury. The Germans are not taking the teenagers lightly. 
 
 “They are hungry, they want to prove themselves and they are surely very patriotic,” said Andrea Petkovic, who made a memorable run at the Sony Ericsson Open on Key Biscayne. 
 
 German captain Barbara Rittner added: “They are still very dangerous. Oudin and McHale are two aspiring players that have nothing to lose here.” ||||| Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period.
– Guess who's back? Serena Williams. And she made sure her return to the tennis court Tuesday was a stylish one, the Miami Herald notes, tweeting a picture of herself in a hot pink body suit. "Look who I spotted on the court. Her first day back," Williams wrote. She hadn't played since July thanks to health problems; click here to catch up on what's been going on. Her agent says Williams is "progressing well" and has the OK from doctors to do light cardio, but still has not set an exact date for her return to the WTA Tour.