Defending champion Serena Williams is out of the Rio de
Janeiro Olympics. Williams lost to Elina Svitolina of Ukraine 6-4, 6-3 in the
third round in a real shock Tuesday, ending the No. 1-seeded American's bid to
become the first tennis player to collect a pair of singles golds.
Against an unheralded opponent who at times couldn't seem to
miss, Williams had problems right from the start, when she got broken to fall
behind 2-1 with a badly missed overhead into the net.
By match's end, Svitolina had won 63 points, but merely nine
came via clean winners of her own doing. The others came thanks to Williams' 37
unforced errors and 17 forced errors.
After winning gold medals in singles and doubles at the 2012
London Olympics, Williams heads home from Brazil with nothing. She and her
older sister Venus, who sat in the stands Tuesday, lost in the first round of
doubles, their first defeat in the Olympics after going 15-0 with three golds.
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