Whatever the cause, Williams opened defense of her Olympic singles gold medal with a patchy-at-times 6-4, 6-2 victory over Australia’s Daria Gavrilova on Sunday, gesturing or yelling at herself as she often does when not all goes her way.
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Venus and Serena fall: In a stunning upset, three-time gold medalists Venus and Serena Williams were eliminated during the first round of the women’s doubles by the Czech duo of Barbora Strycova and Lucie Safarova. They were up against Czech Republic’s Lucie Safarova and Barbora Strycova.
Serena and Venus Williams were surprised as they lost for the first time in the doubles in Olympics.
There won’t be a fourth Olympic gold medal in doubles for the Williams sisters. The 36-year-old Venus, meanwhile, now has two first-round exits at the Rio Olympics, because she was beaten in singles on Saturday night. I wasn’t playing the way I needed to play, I wasn’t crossing the way I needed to cross, it was what it was. We have a chance to compete for our country and did the best that we can. “We know each other’s games”, said Strycova, never better than a doubles semifinalist at a Grand Slam tournament.
While that match was played in the main stadium, action was delayed because of strong winds for about 2 hours on the eight smaller Olympic courts. They won gold medals in 2000, 2008 and 2012 as a doubles team. The top two men’s singles players, John Isner and Sam Querrey, opted to the skip the Olympics, which does not offer points or prize money, to focus on the U.S. hard-court swing that culminates with the U.S. Open later this month. Strycova and Safarov were happy that they won against the sisters. We like to play into the tournament but we played a tough team. This news story is related to Latest/140982-Olympics-Williams-sisters-suffer-first-Games-doubles-loss/ – breaking news, latest news, pakistan ne.
Serena is the defending champion in singles while Venus was the title victor in Sydney 16 years ago.
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