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Australian exit shows Serena Williams is haunted by trauma of US meltdown
2:14am PST - January 23rd, 2019 danielle collins - The Guardian (AU)Serena Williams has insisted she will ‘soldier on’ in search of slam glory but her quarter-final collapse against Karolina Pliskova posed questions about her emotional state Serena Williams leaves Melbourne – and the rest of tennis – less certain about her fu…