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Venus Williams has pledged to fight the illness that threatens to put an end to a tennis career which already looked to be entering its twilight stage now she is 31, reports the Daily Mail. 

The five-time Wimbledon champion admitted that there is no cure for Sjogren's syndrome, which forced her to withdraw from her US Open second-round match just before she was due to play on Wednesday night. 

At minimum the disease - which attacks the auto-immune system and causes energy loss and joint pain - appears to have finished a season in which she will have played only three tournaments. Read more