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Message: <blockquote data-quote="r.pathirana" data-source="post: 20529359" data-attributes="member: 371091">Serena's five-gold dream ends in Rio<img src="http://img.techpowerup.org/160810/capture518.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - Serena Williams' hopes of a fifth Olympic gold medal were crushed by Ukraine's Elina Svitolina on Tuesday as the battle for the women's title in Rio was blown wide open.Top seed and defending champion Williams was clearly struggling with a right shoulder injury as she was stunned 6-4, 6-3 by Svitolina, 13 years her junior."The better player won," said Williams, who served up eight double faults, including five in one game in the second set.She also hit 37 unforced errors."It was a great opportunity. It didn't work out the way I wanted it to, but at least I was able to make it to Rio. That was one of my goals."Defeat for the 34-year-old means that the Rio tournament has lost both its number one players before the quarter-finals after Novak Djokovic went out in the first round.Only three of the top 10 seeds have made it to the last-eight of the women's draw.The Rio Games -- and possibly her Olympic career -- are now over for Serena after she and sister Venus were deposed as doubles champions in the first round.</blockquote>

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