32 year old Serena Williams pulled out of a doubles match on Tuesday. The
tennis star who said she’s “heartbroken” to leave Wimbledon blamed a “bug” for
the strange symptoms that caused her to leave the set.
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| Serena sits with face in hands, as her sister Venus looks: Photo credit:AFP/ Getty Images |
Serena , who won the U.S. Open last fall, was forced to
forfeit the match after struggling to bounce, catch and serve the ball.
Wimbledon tweeted that Williams was “suffering from a viral
illness” as she left the court hand-in-hand with her sister, Venus.
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| Leaving the court with her sister |
“I thought I could rally this morning, because I really
wanted to compete, but this bug just got the best of me,” Williams said in a
statement.
Medical experts have speculated on dehydration being a
cause of her sudden bug, though they can not be specific without tests. Dr.
William Schaffner, chairman of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University
Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, said Williams didn’t appear to be
suffering from a neurological virus because she was still able to walk on her
own.
“That could be a consequence of any number of viral
illnesses,” he said. “It’s still too vague to comment on unless they give us
more details.”
Williams previously suffered a blood clot in her lungs following a foot
injury and surgery in 2011.
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