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Digested week: Serena Williams’s return and the superior branch of evolution | Emma Brockes

The seven-time Wimbledon champion’s comeback at the age 44 serves as a reminder that some women aren’t normal

The week starts with Penelope Keith, sad news of whose death on Monday sends everyone over the age of 40 screeching back to her greatest hits – and they really were great, weren’t they? There are those sitcom characters from the late 1970s who have more or less faded from view – if I try really hard, I can just about summon the image of Wendy Craig and Geoffrey Palmer in Butterflies – but the Good Life never waned, remaining as stubbornly embedded in the national memory as Fawlty Towers, Dad’s Army and the winter of discontent.

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Jul 3, 2026 World news Wimbledon UK news

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