Serena Williams experienced the biggest defeat in her career

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36-year-old American tennis player Serena Williams lost to Johanna Konta in the first round of the tournament in San Jose, taking just one game – 1: 6, 0: 6. This defeat was the most devastating in the career of the 23-time winner of the Grand Slam tournaments The Guardian.

Previously, she did not lose her opponents less than two games per match. And then there were only two such cases. The first – in the distant 1998: Williams lost to Joanette Krueger from South Africa at a tournament in Oklahoma (1: 6, 1: 6). Once again, she lost two games to Romanian tennis player Simona Halep at the final tournament in 2014 with a score of 0: 6, 2: 6.

Earlier «Journalist» reported that the 15-year-old Ukrainian became the champion of the ITF tennis tournament Pro Circuit.