Serena Williams suffered her first defeat since her comeback on the Berlin Tennis Open. She is scheduled to participate in Wimbledon on the finish of the month.
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The tennis participant Serena Williams misplaced within the first doubles spherical of the Berlin Tennis Open. The 44-year-old misplaced with the Czech Karolína Muchová 4:6, 4:6 in opposition to Giuliana Olmos from Mexico and the New Zealander Erin Routliffe and missed the quarter-finals. Williams won’t compete within the particular person in Berlin. After the match, Williams stated she “felt fairly good.” She felt extra cellular, extra secure and sooner than within the first sport at London’s Queen’s Membership in early June.
Just a few hours earlier than the match Berlin The Wimbledon organizer had introduced that Serena and Venus Williams had been one Wildcard for the doubles competition of the Grand Slam from June twenty ninth. “United once more, in Wimbledon,” it stated on the event’s account at X.
The Williams sisters have received three Olympic gold medals and 14 Grand Slam doubles titles collectively, together with six in Wimbledon – the primary in 2000 and the final in 2016. They final performed doubles collectively on the 2022 US Open. Just a few months later, Serena Williams ended her profession.