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The gold medal was the second of the Rio Games for Sock, who won the men’s doubles bronze medal match with partner Steve Johnson against Daniel Nestor and Vasek Pospisil of Canada on Saturday.
“The victory was pretty special and pretty surreal”, Sock said.
After dealing with injuries that forced her to watch tennis on TV instead of playing, Sands, at the age of 31, was ready to hang up her racket and move on to the next stage of her life.
Mattek-Sands is the victor of two Grand Slam titles in women’s and mixed doubles.
With the silver, Williams still tied the Olympic mark with her fifth medal: Kathleen McKane also won five (one gold) in the 1920s.
“It was kind of a last-minute pack”, she said. “If I’m going to go hard-core U.S., it’s going to be at the Olympics.’ So I pulled them out for the match today”.
The silver medal made up for a disappointing Games for the Williams sisters.
His opponent Kei Nishikori captured Japan’s first medal in tennis with a 6-2, 6-7 (1-7), 6-3 win.
Lucie Hradecka and Radek Stepanek of Czech Republic clinched bronze earlier Sunday.
Russia’s Elena Vesnina, right, Ekaterina Makarova kiss their gold medals after defeating Switzerland to win the women’s doubles finals at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Aug. 14, 2016.
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Britain’s Andy Murray beat Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro 7-5 4-6 6-2 7-5 in a compelling and gruelling Olympic tennis final on Sunday to become the first player to successfully defend the title. That match just concluded.
