Serena and Venus Williams have lost in the first round of doubles at the U.S. Open. They were eliminated by the Czech pair of Lucie Hradecka and Linda Noskova 7-6 (5), 6-4 on Thursday night.
were eliminated by the Czech pair of Lucie Hradecka and Linda Noskova 7-6 , 6-4 at Flushing Meadows.
"I’m still in shock that we won," Hradecka said in an on-court interview right after the match’s conclusion. After a rather subdued entrance from the locker room by Hradecka and Noskova, who were competing as a team for the first time, a video tribute to the Williams-Williams pairing played on the Ashe videoboards, with a narrator introducing "two of the greatest athletes on Planet Earth" and, in a reference to Serena's looming retirement, saying, "It's not too late to change your mind.
The spectators saved their biggest cheers for some of Serena’s best efforts, whether aces or putaways or an on-the-run forehand winner. The sisters went up 5-4 early and held two set points there on Noskova’s serve, but could not convert either.
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