Serena Williams, a 23-time Grand Slam singles champion, revealed on Wednesday she had a grapefruit-sized cyst faraway from her neck and is doing properly as she recovers. The 43-year-old former ladies’s tennis world primary mentioned in a Tik Tok video that she discovered a lump in Could on the fitting facet of her neck and an MRI confirmed she had a brachial cyst. “I’m nonetheless recovering, however getting higher. Well being at all times comes first,” Williams posted on X.

Williams didn’t have the cyst eliminated instantly however after it grew in measurement and she or he had a number of exams and a biopsy, she underwent surgical procedure to take away it.

“I discovered this massive mass on my neck. I used to be mortified by it,” she mentioned within the video. “I obtained exams accomplished. Every part you possibly can think about. Every part was detrimental. Seems I had what they name a cyst, a brachial cyst to be actual.

“So I ended up having to get it eliminated. It was so massive. It was the dimensions of a grapefruit and it sort of damage popping out.”

“They needed to put a drain in it as a result of it was a lot however every thing labored out and I really feel actually glad to have labored with some nice docs.

“Slightly scared right here however excited to maneuver on to the subsequent steps of therapeutic and getting properly.”

The tip of her video confirmed Williams with daughter Olympia on a promised purchasing journey after the operation.

“I am feeling so grateful and lucky every thing labored out and most of all I am wholesome,” Williams wrote in a caption to the video. “I nonetheless made it to American doll with Olympia as promised.

“And sure all is okay.”

Williams received her first Grand Slam title on the 1999 US Open and her final on the 2017 Australian Open.

She captured seven Australian Opens, seven Wimbledons, six US Opens and three French Open titles earlier than retiring after the 2022 US Open.

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