The end: Serena Williams reacts as she withdraws from her first round match against Belarus’s Aliaksandra Sasnovich.
LONDON: American legend Serena Williams’s dreams of winning an eighth Wimbledon singles title and equalling Margaret Court’s Grand Slam record of 24 ended in tears on Tuesday.
The 39-year-old was leading 3-1 in the first set of her first round match against Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus when she slipped and had to have off court medical attention.
She returned but called it quits at 3-3 and walked off Centre Court in tears.
“I was heartbroken to have to withdraw today after injuring my right leg,” she said in a statement posted late evening on her Instagram account.
It is the first time in 20 appearances that Williams has bowed out in the first round of Wimbledon.
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