It's the third round of Wimbledon, and up until this point my tennis playing sibling were looking good headed into this weekend's play at the All England club. Serena had destroyed Chanelle Scheepers in an astounding 49 minutes (that's not a typo)in the second round and the number one seed was highly favored to move into the fourth round against 25th seeded Alize Cornet of France.
But after taking only 29 minutes to win the first set 6-1, a rain delay on Court No 1 ensued. When play resumed, the Serena that has been destroying people inexplicably disappeared and shockingly lost the next two sets to Cornet 3-6, 4-6 to find herself on the Wimbledon sidelines for the second year in a row.
And yeah, as you probably guessed, out comes the predictable Internet peanut gallery racist and transmisogynistic commentary after Serena lost.
Big Sis had a tougher third round match with former Wimbledon champ and sixth seeded Petra Kvitova. Venus had been playing well, but exited the singles tournament with a three set 7-5, 6-7 (2-7), 5-7 third round loss. But she made Kvitova work to eliminate her.
The Williams sisters are still not done in the Wimbledon doubles tournament. The eighth seeded siblings have a second round doubles match coming against Kristina Barrois and Stefanie Voegele
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