The Williams sisters
entered Sunday’s match with a 15-0 career record in the Olympics, winning the
gold medal in women’s doubles every time they entered the event: in 2000, 2008
and 2012.
Serena said:
“We played terrible, and it
showed in the results.” “I wasn’t playing the way I needed to play,” Serena
said. “I wasn’t crossing the way I need to cross.”
Neither Safarova nor Strycova,
has ever won an Olympic doubles match, going a combined 0-3 with other
partners. They are even unseeded in Rio while the Williams sisters are seeded
No. 1 in Rio.
Strycova and Safarova only
had played one match as a team before Sunday night and they lost that match
which was in a Fed Cup match last year.
After that defeat, which
was her second one in the Olympics, Venus did not meet with reporters, because
according to the U.S. women’s Olympic tennis coach Mary Joe Fernandez, the
seven-time major singles champion had been sick since before she arrived in Brazil.
Source: AP
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