Serena Williams fined $10,000 for Wimbledon court damage, as the championships comfortably eclipse last year's fine total

Seven-time Wimbledon champion Serena Williams was fined $10,000 for damaging one of All England Club's courts with her racquet on Tuesday. 37-year-old American was sanctioned for an incident which took place during a practice session before tournament got underway.

" code given is for unsportsmanlike behavior. reason is court dam," a spokeswoman told an international media publication.

Williams was seen in action twice later on Tuesday where she faced fellow American Alison Riske for a place in semi-finals.  23-time Grand Slam champion beat Riske 6-4 4-6 6-3 to set up a last-four meeting with Britain's Johanna Konta or Czech Barbora Strycova. Williams is currently chasing her eighth Wimbledon title and her first Grand Slam title since January 2017.

"It was really satisfying," 37-year-old said. "I wouldn't have won that match a couple of weeks ago. I'm gl I was able to come through. She was honestly playing amazing, she beat so many great players. I was really pumped, it was for a place in semis at Wimbledon and that doesn't happen every day. It's a long, arduous ro."

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Post her quarter-final win she returned to Centre Court to partner Britain's Andy Murray in mixed doubles. doubles pair is to play Raquel Atawo and Fabrice Martin in ir second round of tournament. pair in ir previous match against Alexa Guarachi and Andreas Mies; Murray and Williams played with confidence and h great coordination on court. ir rotation was also quick and seamless.

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Australia's Bernard Tomic was also fined his full Wimbledon prize money of $58,500 earlier last week for t meeting "required professional standard" during his first-round defeat by Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. He was accused of lack of effort.  

Including Tomic, fifteen players were fined a total of $106,400 (£84,950) throughout first six days of this year’s Wimbledon, alrey overtaking last year’s total of $68,000 (£54,300) enforced over full two weeks. 

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(With PTI inputs)