After making a 14 years comeback to the to Indian Well’s BNP Paribas Open since boycotting the tournament in 2001 over alleged racist jeers,World’s No. 1 female Tennis star, Serena Williams has withdrawn from her semi –final clash after sustaining a knee injury
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The American star who was gearing up to play third seed Simona Halep of Romania in the semi-final of the BNP Paribas Open, in a bid to get to the finals confirmed in a statement she wouldn’t be able to continue the tournament.
‘I was just on the practice court two days ago and everything was going good, I went for a serve and just felt a super sharp pain in my knee. When you get to a level of pain where you are at nine or a 10, or even an eight, you don’t want to push it because you can actually make it a lot worse. Though it ended early due to injury this year, I have to say I cannot wait to try again next year’ she added.
