Williams sisters register multiple records at London Olympics – Tennis News
Serena Williams and Venus Williams enters the history book with yet another record to their name and this time they join in the Olympics golden memorials by winning their fourth gold medal apiece with a triumph at the All England
Lawn Tennis Club last Sunday. They outplayed the fourth seeded Czech duo, Lucie Hradecka and Andrea Hlavackova, under the Centre Court roof taking just about 90 minutes to wrap up the final battle.
Both these players have won three doubles gold medal and this time they successfully defended their title they won in Beijing 2008. No team has been able to do that and that is another record but the most prominent historic memory
is that the Williams sisters are the first ever tennis players to win four gold medals in their life history, outnumbering the tally of British hero, Reginald Doherty, who won made a hat-trick of gold medals in the 1900 and 1908.
Williams sisters participated in Olympics doubles category on three different occurrences and they have got gold medal every time. Moreover, the elder sister Venus won a singles gold medal at Sydney and the 30-year-old Serena clobbered
away the third seeded Russian starlet, Maria Sharapova, to win her first ever singles gold medal in London. So, it was a double glory for the former world number one who won two gold medals in a span of just 24 hours.
While commenting about the glorious moment in her life, Serena commented, “There's something about standing next to Venus and holding that gold medal. Three times we have played; three times we have got the gold medal. So we are
pretty stoked about it."
Venus Williams commented, “It's incredible. After coming off Serena's victory I think most of all we are happy to add to our country's medal count and be a part of it. Wow. It just feels unreal. We're definitely planning on Rio.
We're going out with a bang in Rio. Hopefully we will make it four, you never know."
The records that were registered included:
Serena Williams became the second ever tennis women in the history of sport to complete her Career Gold Slam, first being the wife of Andre Agassi, Steffi Graff.
Williams sisters became the first duo to successfully defend their doubles gold medal at Olympics.
Williams sisters are first ever tennis players to win four gold medals at Olympics.
With this pace, their legendary status will continue to grab more records in 2016 edition of Games.
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