In hindsight, it shouldn’t have been so shocking to see Venus and Serena lose 6-3, 6-4 to Lucie Safarova and Barbora Strycova on Sunday.
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The duo of Serena and Venus Williams were shown the exit door in tennis doubles event at the Rio 2016 Olympics early on Mondaymorning.
Safarova and Strycova, on the other hand, were a last-minute pairing.
All is not lost for the Williams Sisters as sister Serena is still in contention for back-to-back Olympic titles having eased past Australia’s Daria Gavrilova in her singles opener earlier in the day.
Nadal, the 2008 gold medalist who only confirmed his Rio participation last week, was supported throughout the one-sided match by a rowdy Brazilian crowd. It was the beginning of one of the great runs in Olympic history, as the sisters, over a span of three Olympics (they skipped 2004), went a flawless 15-0 with three gold medals. This news story is related to Latest/140982-Olympics-Williams-sisters-suffer-first-Games-doubles-loss/ – breaking news, latest news, pakistan ne. “We played bad and it showed in the result”.
The sisters were seeded No. 1 in Rio and were just coming off a 14th grand-slam championship together at Wimbledon.
The Czechs, meanwhile, are unseeded.
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. Strycova, a late replacement for Karolina Pliskova, who withdrew from the tournament. They were up against Czech Republic’s Lucie Safarova and Barbora Strycova. “Today I was close to doing that, so it was really good for me to win and do better in the next match”.
“It was a really tough match for us and a really tough draw, but we’re used to tough draws”, she said.
“I don’t know why”. But like Serena and Venus have done so many times, the Australian sisters will compete head-to-head – during individual competition at the pool. Then she changed course, unconvincingly. This marks the second defeat for Venus who also went down in the first round of women’s singles tennis. She was also dehydrated and has an upset stomach after Saturday’s match where she lost. “US!” chant late in the third set, others responded by booing (Kerry had left by then).
Serena is the defending champion in singles while Venus was the title victor in Sydney 16 years ago. “I wasn’t crossing the way I need to cross”.
What was most intense during the first round of the Women’s Tennis sports face-off was not Venus Williams’ averted win.
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But Venus got broken there, allowing Strycova to serve out the surprising victory.
