# What happened to Serena Williams' foot?

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [July 31, 2010, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-serena-williams-foot/548737 "2010-07-31T22:44:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2010, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-serena-williams-foot/548737/1 "2010-07-31T22:44:45Z")

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[NYTimes.com](http://NYTimes.com) says "Williams cut her right foot on broken glass at a restaurant … "

Accidents happen all the time but this one begs the skeptical questions.

What sort of restaurant? What sort of shoes was she wearing? Why was there glass someplace that would cut her foot? No Paparazzi? No talk of litigation?

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**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2010, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-serena-williams-foot/548737/2 "2010-08-01T01:35:25Z")

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Serving a big lolly-pop lob to **Twickster** so she can SMASH it to the Game Room.

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2010, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-serena-williams-foot/548737/3 "2010-08-01T01:42:36Z")

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Speculation - she was wearing some kind of revealing strappy high-heeled shoe and stepped on a fallen wine glass, which shattered and cut her.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2010, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-serena-williams-foot/548737/4 "2010-08-01T08:01:53Z")

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> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> Speculation - she was wearing some kind of revealing strappy high-heeled shoe and stepped on a fallen wine glass, which shattered and cut her.

Well, my guess was that she was wearing glass slippers ala Cinderella, and broke one of them. But yours is more likely.

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**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-serena-williams-foot/548737/5 "2010-08-02T20:36:36Z")

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I find it most curious that there is no details such as what restaurant, where, time of day. Such stories usually have some of these details. I could care less about the facts, it is just that the story seems to be curious in that the facts are missing.

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**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-serena-williams-foot/548737/6 "2010-08-02T20:45:01Z")

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Back in college I stepped off a porch while wearing flip flops, right onto a broken bottle. That was a mess.

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**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-serena-williams-foot/548737/7 "2010-08-02T20:51:06Z")

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> [@janeslogin](#):
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> [NYTimes.com](http://NYTimes.com) says "Williams cut her right foot on broken glass at a restaurant … "
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> Accidents happen all the time but this one begs the skeptical questions.
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> What sort of restaurant? What sort of shoes was she wearing? Why was there glass someplace that would cut her foot? No Paparazzi? No talk of litigation?

Tonya Harding did it so she wouldn’t have to compete with Serena at the next Olympi…oh, wait a minute…