Keep Your Head Up: Serena mentioned more than once that she had undergone a succession of health and career setbacks — two foot surgeries, a blood clot in her lungs, having a tube running from her stomach — that others of her caliber may not have recovered from. At her lowest point, Serena told the interviewer that she said “I have to get up off this couch” and begin, first to live, and then secondly return to the game she loved and which has brought her so much joy and riches.
