Smarting Serena packing a punch for Henin

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LONDON (AFP) — Justine Henin will launch her bid to complete a full set of Grand Slam titles at this year's Wimbledon on a tsunami-strength wave of confidence after following up her French Open triumph with victory on the grass at Eastbourne last week.

But the world number one has been issued with a pre-tournament warning that she will not find the taming of Serena Williams anything like as easy at the All England club as she did on the clay of Roland Garros.

Henin dispatched the younger of the Williams sisters with consumate ease in Paris, winning their quarter-final 6-4, 6-3, and it is clear that setback still rankles with the American.

"I did think about it a lot," she admitted. "I just think I was crazy maybe. I never really came to a conclusion as to...