Wimbledon champion Serena was clearly hampered by the shoulder injury which forced her to skip the Montreal event.
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In the statement, Williams said that she is apparently disappointed. Additionally, the final break of serve in the match – the one that ultimately lost her the match – was a freaky game that included five double-faults, including on the final three points to give away the break. But from the outset, she wasn’t playing her best tennis, making a number of unforced errors and moving sluggishly. “But at the same time, he had a very negative draw, against one of the best players of the world”. “I was just waiting for my opportunity”.
“It didn’t work out the way I wanted it to”, Williams said. “That was one of my goals”.
The world’s most accomplished tennis player crashed out of the Olympics on Tuesday night for an improbable reason.
ELINA SVITOLINA, the young Ukraine tennis player who stunned top seed Serena Williams in the women’s singles.
Svitolina was sharp, often catching Williams flat-footed.
Serena was listless from the start, dropping the first set (which isn’t rare) but then, right when she usually starts to psych herself up to begin her second-set comeback, she seemed to retreat and wave a white flag. “I stayed in the moment, relaxed and went for my shots especially in second set because it was really tight”, Svitolina said. Just fight and focus.
“I didn’t really think about my record against Serena”, said Svitolina. Svitolina said: “It happens sometimes with her serve, but she can do also four aces in a row”. This Olympic tournament has been cruel to No. 1 seeds: Novak Djokovic was eliminated in the first round, as was the French doubles duo of Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert.
Cornet defeated the American star three times in 2014, including at Wimbledon, and proved to be a thorn in her opponent’s side again in Rio. Then she and her sister then lose an excruciating match in likely their last Olympics. To beat her at the Olympics is extremely special. Although she qualified for the final of this year’s French Open and Australian Open, she lost to Garbine Muguruza and Angelique Kerner, respectively, NBC Olympics reported. She next faces British 10th seed Johanna Konta who downed Svetlana Kuznetsova 3-6, 7-5, 7-5.
His win followed losses earlier on Tuesday by compatriots David Ferrer, Carla Suarez and GarbiAe Muguruza that left Nadal – the gold medalist at the 2012 London Games – as Spain’s only option for a medal in singles play, reports Efe.
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Murray, who won gold at the 2012 London Games and is seeded No. 2, breezed past Argentina’s Juan Monaco 6-3, 6-1. However, everything has been going fine for the 2008 Beijing Olympic title and owner of an sterling 14 Grand Slam championships, as he beat Italy’s Andreas Seppi with 6-3, 6-3.
