LONDON: Defending champions Venus and Serena Williams were knocked out of the women's doubles quarter-finals at Wimbledon yesterday, piling on the misery for Venus.
While Serena progressed to the singles semi-finals on Tuesday, five-time Wimbledon champion Venus was knocked out by the unseeded Bulgarian Tsvetana Pironkova.
Winning the doubles title would have given Venus at least something to remember this year's Wimbledon by.
However, the top seeds were beaten 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 by Russian pair Elena Vesnina and Vera Zvonareva in just under two hours on Court Two.
They won it when Venus hit a return into the net.
It was the first defeat the Williams sisters have suffered this year, having won the Australian Open, Madrid and French Open titles.
Venus Williams would have played Zvonareva in the singles semi-finals had she not been knocked out by Pironkova.
The Williams sisters have won four Wimbledon women's doubles titles: 2000, 2002, 2008 and 2009.
In the men's doubles, India's Rohan Bopanna and his Pakistani doubles partner Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, who have made waves at Wimbledon with their "Stop War, Start Tennis" jackets, also lost their quarter-final.
They were knocked out in straight sets by Juergen Melzer of Austria and Germany's Philipp Petzschner, who won 6-4, 7-6, 6-2.
Qureshi had become the first Pakistani player to reach the last eight of any section of this Grand Slam event but his hopes of progressing further were snuffed out by the European pair.
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