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Tennis: A professor of winning falls to puzzling defeat
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Serena Williams leaves the court after her defeat against Czech Republic's Karolina Pliskova during their women's singles quarter-final match at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on Jan 23, 2019.
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Everyone great falls, it's how sport eventually gets even. Everyone brilliant trips, it's why we watch. Everyone exceptional collapses, it's how we remember invincibility is a notion not a truth.
No one is immune to the laws of sport, to loss and indignity, to frustration and falls. Even the ones with cabinets stuffed with trophies have a small storeroom of heartbreak.
