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SERENA Williams is recovering after surgery to remove a benign branchial cyst on her neck.
The 23-time Grand Slam women’s singles champion, who turned 43 last month, opened up about her health problems recently in a series of posts on social media.
The former tennis player revealed he first discovered the lump last May and underwent an MRI to find out the diagnosis.
After doctors told him he didn’t need to remove the cyst if he “didn’t want to,” the lump “kept getting bigger,” until it was the size of a “small lime.”
Further testing — including a biopsy — was performed, and doctors thought the cyst was still benign, but Williams ultimately decided against it
picked it up.
“So this is what I picked up. I feel very grateful, and lucky that everything went smoothly, and most importantly I am healthy,”
said Williams while showing a video of himself in a hospital bed.
Quoted from the official WTA website, Wednesday (16/10), this procedure meant that Williams was unable to attend the Global Woman of the Year awards from Glamor in New York, last week, when she would have received an award as one of the magazine’s best women of the year. .
Williams also missed the announcement of Rafael Nadal’s retirement from tennis.
“Health always comes first,” Wiliams tweeted in a post on X, adding he was still recovering.
Her husband, entrepreneur and co-founder of Reddit, Alexis Ohanian, was the one who sent the most messages of encouragement to the former world number one player in the comments column of his uploads.
“I had the pleasure of working with some great doctors,” Williams said in the video, writing that, “Everything is fine.” (Ant/Z-1)
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