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The news that 13-time Grand Slam singles champion Serena Williams has suffered a serious medical crisis is sobering. On Wednesday it was revealed that Williams, a force of nature on the tennis court who overwhelms her opponents with her strength and vigor, was treated last month for a pulmonary embolism, and then subsequently developed a hematoma. She required emergency treatment on Monday.The good news is that Williams' medical status is apparently stable. But as long as Serena is out of the game, the prognosis for women's tennis is grim. Seven of the players in the current Top 10, including top-ranked Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark, have never won a Grand Slam singles title. Belgium's Justine Henin, with whom Williams waged several compelling on-court battles (most recently in the final of the 2010 Australian Open, which Williams won in three sets), recently retired from the game, again. Neither Wozniacki, nor Zvonareva, nor Victoria Azarenka of Belarus, nor former No. 1 Jelena Jankovic of Serbia has yet been able to convert her considerable talent into a major title. Williams has more power, and more star power, than any woman currently in the game. Even a shameless Kim Clijsters-phile like me knows that women's tennis is an infinitely better product when Serena is part of it. The longer her absence stretches, the more difficult it will be for her to come back, particularly considering that she's operating in a body that's 29, not 21. But Serena is by far the best female player on the planet. She's a formidable competitor, and a fighter. Let's hope for her sake, and for the sake of the game, that this health scare doesn't permanently derail her career.