Monday 11th April, 2011 15 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) FromFrom thethe wworldorld ofof sporsportsts Kochi Tuskers Kerala's Rajasthan Royals' co-owner Mahela Jayawardene, left, and Bollywood actress Shilpa Shantakumaran Sreesanth, Shetty reacts after her team center, and Muttiah won the Indian Premier Muralitharan celebrates the League (IPL) cricket match dismissal of Royal against Deccan Chargers in Challengers Bangalore's Hyderabad, India, Saturday, Tillakaratne Dilshan dur- April 9, 2011. Rajasthan ing their Indian Premier Royals beat the Deccan League (IPL) cricket Chargers by 8 wickets on the match in Kochi, India, second day of the fourth edi- Saturday, April 9, 2011. tion of IPL on Saturday. (AP (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade) Photo/Mahesh Kumar A) Indian artist Yogita Panchal gives the finishing touches Royal Challengers to a tattoo of the Indian Bangalore's Tillakaratne cricket team captain Dilshan celebrates dur- Mahendra Singh Dhoni at ing the Indian Premier the India Ink Tattoo League (IPL) cricket Convention in Mumbai, match against Kochi India, Saturday, April 9, Tuskers Kerala in Kochi, 2011. The two-day long, India, Saturday, April 9, first tattoo convention of 2011. (AP Photo/Rajanish India began Saturday. (AP Kakade) Photo/Rafiq Maqbool).