Day Three Olympic Tennis Results
Despite the rain delays on Sunday, the top seeds in the mens and womens Olympic tennis competition managed to get their matches in and advance to the next round on Monday.
Top-seeded mens player, Roger Federer of Switzerland defeated Russia’s Dmitry Tursunov easily 6-4, 6-2. Number two seed, Spain’s Rafael Nadal, who defeated Federer at Wimbledon and the French Open this year, had a more difficult time. He prevailed, however, over Italy’s Potito Starace in three sets: 6-2, 3-6, 6-2.
In the women’s competition, the Williams sisters of the United States both defeated their opponents. Venus, seeded #7, beat Timea Bacsinszky of Switzerland 6-3, 6-2. Her sister Serena, who is seeded #4, defeated Olga Govortsova of Belraus 6-3, 6-1. The Williams sisters won Gold in Athens playing together in the womens double competition.
Two American men, Robby Ginepri and Sam Querrey, were eliminated, leaving just James Blake to play for the United States in the mens competition.
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2 opinions for Day Three Olympic Tennis Results
l.williams
Aug 14, 2008 at 10:20 am
Can somebody tell why commentators on the Williams sister tennis matches are so biased. When they are beaten like Serena was by the Russian player they are gob smacked.
Sandy Mitchell
Aug 14, 2008 at 10:40 am
Hi!
You can also watch most of the tennis matches via live stream from the NBCOlympics.com site. There are no commentators on that broadcast; you just hear the arena announcers. I much prefer that to the network broadcasts.
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