Serena Williams eats dog food, gets sick, wins at Italian Open

Serena Williams posted a video confessing to making herself sick after tasting dog food she had ordered for her dog in a hotel, just hours before she stormed through to the quarter-final of the Italian Open.

The tennis star wanted to make sure her dog's food was good enough to eat. She posted a snap chat video showing the salmon and rice dish she ordered for her Yorkshire Terrier at their hotel in Rome.

"I thought 'what the heck, I'm gonna try a piece.' It looks good. So I ate a spoonful. Don't judge me!" Williams said on her video. Then she later said, "let's fast forward two hours. I just ran to the toilet like I thought I was gonna pass out.

"I mean it did taste weird. I force-swallowed it. It tasted kind of like house-cleaner thing. I don't know what they put in these dog foods, but Chip liked it."

Despite her compromised state she managed to win the Italian Open and beat fellow American Christina McHale 7-6 (7), 6-1 in the third round on Thursday.