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What's this??? 4 Americans lose their tennis matches in the first round???? (Original Post) a kennedy Aug 2016 OP
That's Olympic tennis for you...always screwy joeybee12 Aug 2016 #1
It's got worse ... muriel_volestrangler Aug 2016 #2
 

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
1. That's Olympic tennis for you...always screwy
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 12:05 PM
Aug 2016

Not really surprised about Venus, Flipkins can play very well at times...wonder what happened with Sloane, though.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,146 posts)
2. It's got worse ...
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 08:27 PM
Aug 2016
Three-time doubles gold medalists Serena and Venus Williams lost an Olympic match as partners for the first time, stunned in the opening round of the Rio de Janeiro Games by the Czech Republic’s Lucie Safarova and Barbora Strycova 6-3, 6-4.

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.

“We played terrible,” Serena said, “and it showed in the results.”

The American duo was seeded No1 in Rio and coming off a 14th Grand Slam championship together at Wimbledon a month ago.

Neither Safarova nor Strycova, meanwhile, ever had won an Olympic doubles match, going a combined 0-3 with other partners. They are unseeded in Rio.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/aug/07/rio-2016-williams-sisters-crash-out-womens-doubles-tennis
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