Serena Williams remains champion of the Austrialian Open with a win against Australian Jarmila Gajdosova which will advance her to the second round. Despite the impressive win, Serena says she is still nursing a personal heartbreak after her boyfriend broke up with her.

Serena, who is 26-years-old posted a message on her blog stating she put her trust and faith in a boyfriend and got dumped:

       “Trust is something you vowed you would never do again, but slowly your heart comes out of its steel enclosure,” she wrote in the entry posted on her Web site www.serenawilliams.com Monday. “You feel like you can trust him, you feel as if everything you went through was for a reason, and the reason was to meet him.”      

She never reveals the name of her boyfriend throughout the blog, but we know the last man she dated was actor Jackie Long, who played the character Esquire in the film “ATL.” Serena also said that as “weeks turn into months” her patience with getting him to perform one seemingly simple task has worn thin.      

       “No, not [say] the ‘L’ word, but what you have been most afraid of,” she wrote. “What deep in your heart you have been afraid to confront. What you always suspected would happen one day sooner or later. HE STOPS CALLING. You panic.” …. “eventually you know you will find the keys to your heart, but also in the back of your mind you think … will it happen again?”      

She also wrote about the changes the break-up brought to her life.      

       “I decided to rid myself of relationships that could stop me from reaching the main goal which is being the best,” she wrote. “I did not want anything to stand in my way of doing what I do best, which is playing tennis.”      

The book she found comfort in was “Who Moved My Cheese?” by motivational author Spencer Johnson, who likens mice in a maze hunting for cheese to humans searching for happiness and success.      

       “Basically, it was talking about complacency and being afraid of change,” Williams wrote. “I then realized that I was afraid to change, afraid to move on. I was afraid to find new cheese! I thought there was only one cheese out there but after reading that book I realized that there is all types of cheese out there.”