Serena Williams, 43, shares health update after having lump the size of a grapefruit detected

SERENA WILLIAMS has fixed a wellness update aft a lump the "size of a grapefruit" was recovered connected her neck.

The retired tennis prima revealed the find to her fans connected social media backmost successful May.

Williams, 43, had an MRI scan to spot what the lump was and was diagnosed arsenic a cyst.

She has undergone country to person the cyst removed arsenic it had "kept growing".

Doctors advised her to person it removed arsenic they warned it had reached the size of a "small grapefruit."

There was besides the hazard that it could "get infected oregon astatine worse leak".

She decided to person the cognition aft much tests, and a biopsy revealed that it was antagonistic for cancer.

Williams gave her followers a affirmative update aft the procedure.

She wrote: "So this is maine removing it.

"I americium feeling truthful grateful, and fortunate everything worked out, and astir of each I’m healthy."

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The 23-time Grand Slam champion shared different update successful which she admitted that she was inactive recovering.

She added: "Still recovering, but getting better."

Williams has been retired from tennis since the 2022 US Open.

She was 1 of the champion to ever measurement onto the tribunal during her 20-year career.

She held the WTA's apical spot for 319 weeks of her glittering career.

Williams' past large tourney triumph came successful 2017 erstwhile she claimed the Australian Open.

When she yet called clip connected her vocation she was conscionable 1 rubric abbreviated of Margaret Court's grounds of 24 Grand Slams.

She is joined to Alexis Ohanian and has 2 daughters Olympia, 7, and Adira, 1.