According to Jim Pierce, his daughter Mary is almost ready to return to pro competition. In statements published by the Sun-Sentinel, Pierce said that Mary has been given permission by her doctor to resume practicing. She has already selected her father as her new coach, and will also work with her brother David. According to Pierce, Mary is in Paris seeing one more orthopedic specialist and, if cleared there, she’ll be ready to resume a career which was painfully interrupted in Linz in October of 2006, when she collapsed on court with an anterior cruciate ligament injury…read article…