Italian Open: Serena Williams regrets eatingdog food.

Serena Williams has revealed the agony of
eating dog food which hampered her Italian
Open preparations on Wednesday, Sportinglife
reports.

The top seed in Rome may have overcome
fellow American and qualifier Christina McHale
to make the quarter-finals but her two-set
victory doesn’t even come close to telling the
story.

Earlier this month, the 34-year-old – who will
soon be playing in the French Open – was
forced to withdraw from the Madrid Open
because of a fever.

But what happened in Italy this week seem to
be completely her own doing.

After coming back from 3-5 down in the
opening set and saving a set point in the
tiebreak of a 7-6 (7-5) 6-1 win over McHale,
Serena said, “Unfortunately it was true.”

The question? “Did you eat dog food?”
She first shared the news on Snapchat with a
series of videos on Wednesday that she was
“really sick” having tasted her hotel’s specially
prepared food for her four-legged friend.

“They have this menu for my dog, because
Chip left his food – can you imagine?” she
said on the social media platform.

“On the doggy menu it has soup, and all this
other good stuff. So I’m like, “I might want to
taste this food’. So I ordered him the salmon
and rice, because I thought ‘I eat salmon’.

“Before you judge me, look at it. That’s the
salmon and rice – it’s kind of mixed together,
right? I thought ‘What the heck, I’m going to try
a piece. It looks good.’ So I ate a spoonful.

Don’t judge me! I ate a spoonful!
"I don’t think it’s consumable for humans. They
should’ve wrote that! So now I feel really sick.
It was just a spoonful.”