|
 Tennis Australia, which handles all of the withdrawals for the
tournament, were unable to give a reason why the 13-time grand slam
and three-time Olympic champions were unable to play their match
against 11th seeds Anabel Medina Garrigues and Yaroslava Shedova.
Irina Falconi and Petra Martic took the Williams sisters' place in
the draw, though were beaten 6-3 6-3 by the Spanish/Kazakh pairing.
Medina Garrigues and Shvedova will now face either the pairing of
Kiki Bertens and Johanna Larsson or Mirajana Lucic-Baroni and Lisa
Raymond.
Both Serena and Venus play their second round singles matches on
Thursday.
(Reporting by Greg Stutchbury; Editing by Amlan Chakraborty)
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