Serena Williams may be facing a race against time to be fit for next month’s US Open, but the American ace has insisted she’s on top of her recovery from a recent foot injury.
The world No.1 needed surgery after slashing her right foot on broken glass at a restaurant, only hours after winning her fourth Wimbledon title in straight sets against Vera Zvonareva, and will now miss tour events in Istanbul, Cincinnati and Montreal. And even if the 13-time Grand Slam champion’s foot heals in time, a lack of match practice could see her plans for a fourth US Open title hit the net by the time the final Slam of the year starts in New York on August 30.
But the 28-year-old was bullish on her Twitter page, tweeting: “Hey guys I’m doing better. Thanks for all the love. I can’t wait to get out of bed and back on the courts and do what I do best.”
Exactly what happened at the restaurant remains a mystery, but Williams will be desperate to make an appearance at Flushing Meadows and move on from the controversy that surrounded her exit 12 months ago.
Williams unleashed a volley of abuse at a line judge for calling a foot fault that left her facing match point against Kim Clijsters
in last year’s semis. Williams threatened to “take this ball and shove it down your throat”, was handed a points penalty and the match went to the Belgian.
The big-hitting American was fined a record $175,000, but eventual champion Clijsters is keen to move on from the incident and see Williams back at the Queens-based arena.
“You want the best players to be out there, especially at the US Open,” Clijsters said. “It would be sad not to have Serena there.”
But with WTA tour spokesman Andrew Walker claiming earlier this week that Williams’ chances of making the US Open remain slim, all the positive talk could end up being dealt a forehand smash. Her faulty foot isn’t Williams’ first injury scare of the year. The Australian Open champion tweaked her knee at Melbourne Park earlier in the year and was forced to pull out of the Miami Masters before going on to lose in the French Open quarters to Samantha Stosur.
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Another losing day with the system. A few of the chase sequences moved on to their next bets and a few of them lost again. Hopefully if any matches today match the criteria to continue chasing then they will end up as winning bets, otherwise I expect I will have to break it down to recover over further bets.
I've also had two bad days on the tipping comp now too, Hanescu turning me over yesterday so today I'm going with Starace. I think he will have to much for Riba so fingers crossed I can't get three in a row wrong after Robredo lost before that.
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