Serena Williams wins Italian Open match a day after making herself ill from eating dog food

'I don't think it was consumable for humans and THEY SHOULD HAVE WROTE THAT'

Serena Williams (Getty)

There really is no stopping Serena Williams.

The tennis great has just progressed to the quarter finals of the Italian Open hours after suffering illness… because she ate dog food.

Williams filmed herself pondering over what to give her Yorkshire terrier, Chip, for dinner. She perused a a fancy hotel’s devoted “doggy menu” before deciding on a “salmon and rice” dish for €15.

While it may have been extra luxurious food for a dog, Williams proved this wasn’t the case for humans and admitted having to run to the bathroom after sampling a spoonful.

“I ate a spoonful, don’t judge me I ate a spoon full,” she told the camera. “Let’s fast forward two hours, I just ran to the toilet like I thought I was going to pass out.

“It did taste weird, I force swallowed it. It tasted a little bit like a house cleaner kind of thing […] I don’t think it was consumable for humans and THEY SHOULD HAVE WROTE THAT,” she said before leaving a note on the menu advising any future human guests to avoid it.

Williams beat Christina McHale in straight sets in Rome, she will face Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova on Friday.