Photos: Williams wows at Wimbledon champions’ dinner after Twitter body-shaming row

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s'#SerenaSlam! I love her. What an athlete, what a role model, what a woman!': JK Rowling gushed about the tennis star following her Saturday victory

Serena Williams proved her body-shaming critics wrong last night as she stepped out alongside Novak Djokovic to show off her enviable figure at the Wimbledon Champions’ Dinner. The 33-year-old six-time champion looked beautiful as she arrived at the event in London wearing a hugging, peach-coloured floor-length gown.

She became the oldest ever Wimbledon champion and also moved one step closer to achieving a calendar Grand Slam, holding the titles for the world’s four major tournaments in one year

'"she is built like a man". Yeah, my husband looks just like this in a dress. You're an idiot.' The author reacted to the body-shaming comment by proving her point with an image of Serena looking sensational

But after her win, JK Rowling was forced to jump to the player’s defence when a troll attributed her tennis success to being ‘built like a man’.

In a cutting response to the remark, the 49-year-old immediately posted two more images of Williams in a red figure-hugging knee-length dress before writing: ‘Yeah, my husband looks just like this in a dress. You’re an idiot.’

The effective response – which was retweeted and favourited hundreds of thousands of times – came after the author gushed: ‘#SerenaSlam! I love her. What an athlete, what a role model, what a woman!’