NEW YORK — Serena Williams stated she had a benign branchial cyst “the scale of a small grapefruit” faraway from her neck and “all is OK.”
The retired tennis star, 43, posted Wednesday on social media that she discovered a lump on her neck in Could, had an MRI examination, and was advised she did not have to get it eliminated if she did not need to. So she did not then, “but it surely saved rising,” Williams stated.
After extra assessments, together with a biopsy that was damaging for most cancers, Williams stated, her medical doctors stated she ought to have a process.
She confirmed video of herself in a hospital mattress and wrote: “So that is me eradicating it. I’m feeling so grateful, and lucky every part labored out, and most of all I am wholesome.”
In a separate social media put up, she stated she is “nonetheless recovering, however getting higher. Well being at all times comes first.”
Williams introduced her retirement — famously eschewing that time period and saying as a substitute she was “evolving” away from skilled tennis — shortly earlier than taking part in within the 2022 US Open, her final match.
She received 23 Grand Slam titles in singles, probably the most by a girl within the sport’s skilled period, and one other 14 in doubles together with her older sister Venus. Serena Williams spent greater than 300 weeks at No. 1 within the WTA rankings and picked up 4 Olympic gold medals.
