{"id":11289,"date":"2016-07-09T18:49:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T23:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=11289"},"modified":"2016-07-10T00:53:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T05:53:20","slug":"williams-sisters-win-sixth-wimbledon-doubles-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=11289","title":{"rendered":"Williams Sisters Win Sixth Wimbledon Doubles Crown"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Serena Williams put the icing on the cake of another magnificent #Wimbledon<\/a> campaign by teaming up with sister Venus for a sixth doubles crown at the All England Club on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The reigning Olympic champions beat Timea Babos of Hungary and Kazakhstan’s Yaroslava Shvedova 6-3 6-4 on Centre Court — hours after Serena claimed a record-equalling 22nd grand slam singles title by defeating Germany’s Angelique Kerber 7-5 6-3.The reigning Olympic champions beat Timea Babos of Hungary and Kazakhstan’s Yaroslava Shvedova 6-3 6-4 on Centre Court — hours after Serena claimed a record-equalling 22nd grand slam singles title by defeating Germany’s Angelique Kerber 7-5 6-3.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Serena<\/a> has now won both the Wimbledon singles and doubles (with @venuswilliams<\/a>) in the same year on four occasions. Together, the American duo have a perfect 14-0 record in grand slam doubles finals.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“It’s unbelievable,” said Serena. “It’s a feat even I couldn’t have thought would have happened. It’s amazing.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

For Venus it was a consolation after she lost to Kerber in Thursday’s singles semi-finals — denying her a first grand slam singles final since losing to Serena at Wimbledon in 2009.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“It’s a privilege, it’s an honor,” said Venus. “When you enter the doubles draw, you dream of winning. Then we enter the singles, we dream of winning.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“To have Williams on both of those, somehow in 2016, it’s another dream come true.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

The sisters, who paired up again this year after a two-year absence, have won 14 grand slam doubles titles together — moving them level with American Gigi Fernandez and Belarussian Natasha Zvereva in second place on the all-time list.<\/strong><\/p>\n

They still have some way to go, however, to match the 20 of Martina Navratilova and fellow American Pam Shriver.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I didn’t know about that stat until yesterday, that we were 13-0,” said Venus. “It’s not something you really think about. You just get to the final and try to win.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I don’t think it made us nervous. You got time. If you get down a break, you always have time to get the break back. You can always go to a third (set).<\/strong><\/p>\n

“When you’re out there, you probably realize you have a chance to go for it again.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Williams sisters are now 22-1 in all doubles finals they have played together.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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CONGRATULATIONS TO SERENA AND VENUS WILLIAMS ON THEIR WIMBLEDON 2016 DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP WIN.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Serena Williams put the icing on the cake of another magnificent #Wimbledon campaign by teaming up with sister Venus for a sixth doubles crown at the All England Club on Saturday. The reigning Olympic champions beat Timea Babos of Hungary and Kazakhstan’s Yaroslava Shvedova 6-3 6-4 on Centre Court — hours after Serena claimed a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1225,1,17],"tags":[1222,1223,25,27],"class_list":["post-11289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-wimbledon","category-news","category-tennis","tag-2016-wimbledon-doubles-championship","tag-all-england-club","tag-serena-williams","tag-venus-williams","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}