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he's admitted to being title at Wimbledon last July. depressed in recent weeks, but The 29-year-old is recovering SSerena Williams looked back from an operation to remove a blood to her old self as she fitted in some clot 'the size of a grapefruit' found much needed relaxation. in her lung in February. The tennis star, who has been Serena had developed a sidelined by injury, laughed and haematoma from a pulmonary joked with her friend as they sun- embolism, stemming from an inci- bathed on Miami beach. dent when she cut her foot on bro- Serena and her friend, known as ken glass in a Munich restaurant 'Val', kept in the shade, with Serena last July. matching her white and grey bikini 'I definitely have not been happy,' with a Nike white cap and a red she said recently. 'Especially when I Chanel purse. had that second (foot) surgery, I was The day was perhaps the best definitely depressed. I cried all the medicine for Serena, who time. I was miserable to be around.' has been sidelined Serena, who has slipped to world from her sport number 11 in her absence from the since claiming WTA Tour, is unlikely to return her 13th Grand before the summer and admitted Slam that the time spent on the sidelines had taken an emotional toll. A part of her lung had 'died' from the pulmonary embolism and she has remained on blood thinning medication. (Daily Mail)

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