Sister act: Serena, right, and Venus, who also suffered from a hip injury and took a five-month break.
Serena Williams always did know how to put on a show, and she captivated an audience with tales of life-saving surgery, of slicing her foot open on broken glass and of the mental torment endured since she last struck a tennis ball in competitive anger. The 13-time Grand Slam champion, who has not played tennis competitively since last summer, told of her arduous recovery after three major operations. Speaking at a press conference during the Aegon International tennis tournament in Eastbourne, Serena revealed the graphic detail of her ordeal as she underwent surgery to remove a blood clot on the lung. Williams, 29, said: ‘It has been a totally different road because I’ve had some serious health problems and I was literally on my deathbed at one point’. The blood clots formed during Serena’s recuperation from a second operation on her right foot, lacerated by glass in a restaurant in Munich last July, an event which is still shrouded in mystery in spite of this explanation. The gruesome nature of some details hides the unanswered riddle of how broken glass on the floor could rip through sandals and into Serena’s toes, one of them from above. In such a chilling context, the next three weeks are about enjoyment for the younger Williams sister, who will be competing in Wimbledon.
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