Serena falls ill after eating dog food but reaches Italian Open quarters

‘I don’t think it’s consumable for humans. They should have wrote that’

Women's top seed Serena Williams won through to the quarter-finals of the Italian Open despite falling ill after tasting her pet dog's dinner in her Rome hotel.

Her Yorkshire terrier Chip had been served a salmon and rice dish and Williams told followers on social media she had been tempted by the look of it, saying: "I ate a spoonful. Don't judge me."

The food tasted “a little bit like a house-cleaner thing,” Williams said in a video posted on Snapchat, adding that she had made an urgent trip to the bathroom a few hours later.

“I don’t think it’s consumable for humans. They should have wrote that,” added Williams, who showed no lingering ill effects in beating fellow American Christina McHale 7-6(7), 6-1.