Serena Williams goodbye

Serena Williams passed another stage on the path to a possible comeback to professional tennis, being listed Monday by the sport’s drug-testing organization as eligible to return to competition on Feb. 22.

That is six months after the 23-time Grand Slam singles champion initially registered with the International Tennis Integrity Agency.

Williams, who is 44, was listed on the ITIA website’s reinstatement page Monday, a development first reported by Bounces.

What was not immediately known was when or where ...