Serena Williams withdrew from the French Open Monday with a pectoral injury, shortly before she was to play her round-of-16 match against Maria Sharapova. “I unfortunately [have] been having some issues with my pec muscle,” she said at a press conference. The match against Sharapova had extra intrigue because the two players had not faced each other since Sharapova served a 15-month doping ban. Williams, a 23-time Grand Slam champion, was playing in her first Grand Slam since she won the Australian Open in early 2017 while pregnant. Williams had some parting words for followers online: “You always live to fight for another chance.

Source: Huffington Post June 04, 2018 15:33 UTC