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Template:Short description Template:Infobox Olympic sport Script error: No such module "For". Template:Tennis tournaments Tennis was part of the Summer Olympic Games program from the inaugural 1896 Summer Olympics, but was dropped after the 1924 Summer Olympics due to disputes between the International Lawn Tennis Federation and the International Olympic Committee over how to define amateur players.[1][2] After two appearances as a demonstration sport in 1968 and 1984 (with a U-21 age limit),[3] it returned as a full medal sport at the 1988 Summer Olympics open for all players regardless of their age and status and has been played at every summer Games since then.[4]

Medals

In 1896, 1900, 1904, 1988, 1992, semifinal losers shared bronze medals. In all other years, a playoff match for the bronze medal was staged. The Olympic tournaments have increased in perceived importance since their reintroduction, with some players, critics and sports pundits considering winning gold at the Olympics just as prestigious as winning a major title and some considering it even more prestigious.[5][6]

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Laura Pigossi and Luisa Stefani from Brazil, winners of the women’s doubles bronze medal at the 2020 Summer Olympic Games.

Gold medal records

Serena Williams and Venus Williams have each won a record four gold medals, three each as a doubles pairing, the only players to win the same Olympic event on three occasions. Venus Williams (four gold, one silver) and Kathleen McKane Godfree (one gold, two silvers, and two bronzes) are the all-time record holders for the most Olympic tennis medals, with five each. Andy Murray is the only player to have won two singles gold medals, and the only singles player to have retained the Olympic title. Nicolás Massú, Venus Williams, and Serena Williams are the only players in the Open Era to win both the singles and same-sex doubles tournaments at one Games, doing so in 2004, 2000, and 2012 respectively.

Golden Slams

A player who wins an Olympic or Paralympic gold medal and all four majors in the same year is said to have won a Golden Slam, while a player that has won all four Grand Slam titles and Olympic gold during their career has a 'career Golden Slam'. As of 2021, Steffi Graf (in 1988) and Dylan Alcott (in 2021) are the only players to have won a single-year Golden Slam. Gigi Fernandez, Serena Williams and Venus Williams are the only players to complete career Golden Slam in doubles twice. In men's tennis, Andre Agassi, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic each won career Golden Slams. Multiple doubles players have achieved the feat, with Serena Williams the only player to complete the career Golden Slam in both singles and doubles.[7] In 2021, wheelchair tennis players Diede de Groot and Dylan Alcott achieved the equivalent wheelchair tennis prize with Paralympic gold.[8]

Tiebreaker games

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2012 Women's Singles medalists, Serena Williams (center), Maria Sharapova (right) and Victoria Azarenka (left).

Since 2021, the deciding set (third) has a 7-point tiebreaker game to decide the match at 6-all. Should the tiebreaker game be tied at 6-all, whoever scores two straight points wins it.

Summary

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Year Events Best Nation
1896 2 Template:FlagIOC2 (1)
1900 4 Template:FlagIOC2 (2)
1904 2 Template:FlagIOC2 (1)
1908 6 Template:FlagIOC2 (3)
1912 8 Template:FlagIOC2 (1)
1920 5 Template:FlagIOC2 (4)
1924 5 Template:FlagIOC2 (2)
1968 10 Template:FlagIOC2 (1)
1984 2 Template:FlagIOC2 (1)
1988 4 Template:FlagIOC2 (3)
1992 4 Template:FlagIOC2 (4)
1996 4 Template:FlagIOC2 (5)
2000 4 Template:FlagIOC2 (6)
2004 4 Template:FlagIOC2 (1)
2008 4 Template:FlagIOC2 (1)
2012 5 Template:FlagIOC2 (7)
2016 5 Template:FlagIOC2 (8)
2020 5 Template:FlagIOC2 (1)
2024 5 Template:FlagIOC2 (1)

Surface

The playing surface of the court varies between Olympic Games. It has been on hard court for every Olympics since 1984 except for the 1992 and 2024 Olympics (which were on a clay court) and the 2012 Olympics (which was played on a grass court). The changing playing surface gives certain players different advantages and disadvantages not seen in most other Olympic sports.

Events

(d) = demonstration event, (e) = exhibition event

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Champions and venues

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List of gold medalists and venues where the Games took place listed below.

Amateur Era (1896–1924)

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Open Era (1988–present)

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Participating nations

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Nation 96 00 04 08 12 20 24 28–64 68 72–80 84 88 92 96 00 04 08 12 16 20 Editions
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Template:FlagIOC 5 1 5 6 8 8 9 6 7 6 7 11
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Template:FlagIOC 1 2 1 2 3 6 7 7 10 7 8 6 10 10 14
Template:FlagIOC 3 3 2 3 5 1 3 1 3 3 2 2 12
Template:FlagIOC 2 2 2 2 2 5
Template:FlagIOC 1 1
Template:FlagIOC 2 4 2 5 3 2 3 7
Template:FlagIOC 16 8 1 3 3 3 2 5 3 4 10
Template:FlagIOC 1 1
Template:FlagIOC 1 1
Template:FlagIOC 1 4 8 3
Template:FlagIOC 1 1 2
Template:FlagIOC 1 2 2
Template:FlagIOC 1 1 3 4 3 4 3 4 4 7 7 11
Template:FlagIOC 2 3 2 1 1 2 2 7
Template:FlagIOC 3 2 7 5 6 4 2 3 5 4 4 11
Template:FlagIOC 2 1 2 2 2 2 2 1 8
Template:FlagIOC 1 2 5 4 3 4 8 4 5 5 10
Template:FlagIOC 1 3 2 1 3 3 5 5 8
Template:FlagIOC 2 2 4 3 4 5
Template:FlagIOC 1 1
Template:FlagIOC 1 2 2
Template:FlagIOC 2 4 5 5 1 2 4 6 8
Template:FlagIOC 1 1 2
Template:FlagIOC 4 7 8 11 8 7 6 7
Template:FlagIOC 7 5 5 5 4
Template:FlagIOC 10 3 5 2 1 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 12
Template:FlagIOC 1 1 2
Template:FlagIOC 4 3 1 3
Template:FlagIOC 2 1
Template:FlagIOC 1 1
Template:FlagIOC 2 2 1 3
Template:FlagIOC 4 1 1 1 1 5
Template:FlagIOC 1 14 1 6 10 10 2 4 5 7 4 7 9 8 7 9 10 17
Template:FlagIOC 2 1 1 3
Template:FlagIOC 1 1 5 7 6 3 5 4 2 7 8 9 12
Template:FlagIOC 2 6 22 11 8 10 3 5 6 5 6 1 2 8 7 6 16
Template:FlagIOC 7 1 3 2 3 4 2 1 4 2 2 11
Template:FlagIOC 1 1 1 1 4
Template:FlagIOC 1 1
Template:FlagIOC 1 3 6 5 2 1 5 5 4 2 2 2 12
Template:FlagIOC 6 1 3 2 2 4 2 4 7 4 3 11
Template:FlagIOC 1 3 5 2 2 2 6
Template:FlagIOC 4 2 2 2 4
Template:FlagIOC 1 4 1 3 4 3 1 7
Template:FlagIOC 4 8 3 4 5 8 8 6 6 8 7 7 6 13
Template:FlagIOC 2 4 2 2 4 5 7 5 4 3 3 6 11 13
Template:FlagIOC 3 2 7 3
Template:FlagIOC 2 1 1 2 4
Template:FlagIOC 1 1 2
Template:FlagIOC 1 1
Template:FlagIOC 1 1 1 2 1 1 6
Template:FlagIOC 2 2 1 3
Template:FlagIOC 2 6 1 5 4 3 2 2 2 9
Template:FlagIOC 1 1
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Template:FlagIOC 1 2 1 1 2 5
Template:FlagIOC 2 1 5 1 1 5 5 3 2 3 4 11
Template:FlagIOC 3 1 1 1 2 2 6
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Template:FlagIOC 7 3 4 2 1 1 6
Template:FlagIOC 2 2 1 1 1 1 6
Template:FlagIOC 3 2 1 1 4
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Template:FlagIOC 1 3 2 2 6 7 7 6 8
Template:FlagIOC 1 2 2 2 2 2 6
Template:FlagIOC 3 1 2 1 1 5
Template:FlagIOC 8 1
Template:FlagIOC 3 5 4 3 2 2 5 6 3 9
Template:FlagIOC 2 4 5 9 9 10 8 7
Template:FlagIOC 1 1
Template:FlagIOC 4 6 6 5 4
Template:FlagIOC 5 5 7 4 4 3 3 7
Template:FlagIOC 4 3 4 4 1 5
Template:FlagIOC 3 3 5 4 6 6 5 2 8
Template:FlagIOC 4 7 2
Template:FlagIOC 1 5 4 5 4 2 1 1 8
Template:FlagIOC 4 8 3 2 4 6 7 7 11 9 12 9 8 13
Template:FlagIOC 4 16 8 4 1 2 3 6 4 5 4 5 3 1 1 15
Template:FlagIOC 3 4 2 2 4 3 3 4 5 2 2 2 12
Template:FlagIOC 2 2 3 2 1 2 6
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Template:FlagIOC 1 1 2 2 1 5
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Template:FlagIOC 5 1
Template:FlagIOC 5 35 1 9 6 7 7 7 7 10 10 10 12 11 11 15
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Template:FlagIOC 2 1 1 1 1 5
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Template:FlagIOC 1 3 2 2 3 3 1 7
Nations total 6 4 2 10 14 14 27 - 15 - 34 38 48 55 52 52 48 44 56 45
Players total 13 26 36 50 82 75 124 - 45 - 64 129 177 176 182 170 169 184 199 191

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Medal tables

All-time

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Open Era

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Amateur Era

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Multiple medal winners (1896–present)

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Total Name Gold Silver Bronze
5 Template:Flagicon Venus Williams 4 1 0
4 Template:Flagicon Serena Williams 4 0 0
4 Template:Flagicon Reginald Doherty 3 0 1
3 Template:Flagicon Vincent Richards 2 1 0
3 Template:Flagicon Andy Murray 2 1 0
3 Template:Flagicon Laurence Doherty 2 0 1
3 Template:Flagicon Mary Joe Fernández 2 0 1
3 Template:Flagicon Suzanne Lenglen 2 0 1
3 Template:Flagicon Charles Winslow 2 0 1
2 Template:Flagicon Kateřina Siniaková 2 0 0
2 Template:Flagicon Rafael Nadal 2 0 0
2 Template:Flagicon John Pius Boland 2 0 0
2 Template:Flagicon Charlotte Cooper 2 0 0
2 Template:Flagicon Gigi Fernández 2 0 0
2 Template:Flagicon André Gobert 2 0 0
2 Template:Flagicon Arthur Gore 2 0 0
2 Template:Flagicon Edith Hannam 2 0 0
2 Template:Flagicon Nicolás Massú 2 0 0
2 Template:Flagicon Hazel Wightman 2 0 0
2 Template:Flagicon Helen Wills Moody 2 0 0
2 Template:Flagicon Beals Wright 2 0 0
5 Template:Flagicon Kathleen McKane Godfree 1 2 2
4 Template:Flagicon Charles Dixon 1 1 2
3 Template:Flagicon Max Décugis 1 1 1
3 Template:Flagicon Fernando González 1 1 1
3 Template:Flagicon Steffi Graf 1 1 1
3 Template:Flagicon Major Ritchie 1 1 1
2 Template:Flagicon Herbert Barrett 1 1 0
2 Template:Flagicon Belinda Bencic 1 1 0
2 Template:Flagicon Elena Dementieva 1 1 0
2 Template:Flagicon Roger Federer 1 1 0
2 Template:Flagicon Harold Kitson 1 1 0
2 Template:Flagicon Dorothea Köring 1 1 0
2 Template:Flagicon / Template:Flagicon Elena Vesnina 1 1 0
2 Template:Flagicon Todd Woodbridge 1 1 0
2 Template:Flagicon Mark Woodforde 1 1 0
2 Template:Flagicon Max Woosnam 1 1 0
3 Template:Flagicon Mike Bryan 1 0 2
2 Template:Flagicon Novak Djokovic 1 0 1
2 Template:Flagicon John Peers 1 0 1
2 Template:Flagicon Victoria Azarenka 1 0 1
2 Template:Flagicon Jack Sock 1 0 1
2 Template:Flagicon Marguerite Broquedis 1 0 1
2 Template:Flagicon Bob Bryan 1 0 1
2 Template:Flagicon Zina Garrison 1 0 1
2 Template:Flagicon Edgar Leonard 1 0 1
2 Template:Flagicon Miloš Mečíř 1 0 1
2 Template:Flagicon Jack Sock 1 0 1
4 Template:Flagicon Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 0 2 2
3 Template:Flagicon Harold Mahony 0 2 1
3 Template:Flagicon Conchita Martínez 0 2 1
3 Template:Flagicon Jana Novotná 0 2 1
2 Template:Flagicon Rajeev Ram 0 2 0
2 Template:Flagicon George Caridia 0 2 0
2 Template:Flagicon Henri Cochet 0 2 0
2 Template:Flagicon Dorothy Holman 0 2 0
2 Template:Flagicon Dionysios Kasdaglis 0 2 0
2 Template:Flagicon Ichiya Kumagae 0 2 0
2 Template:Flagicon Robert LeRoy 0 2 0
2 Template:Flagicon Yvonne Prévost 0 2 0
2 Template:Flagicon Virginia Ruano Pascual 0 2 0
2 Template:Flagicon Helena Suková 0 2 0
2 Template:Flagicon Alphonzo Bell 0 1 1
2 Template:Flagicon Sigrid Fick 0 1 1
2 Template:Flagicon Juan Martín del Potro 0 1 1
2 Template:Flagicon Lucie Hradecká 0 1 1
2 Template:Flagicon Albert Canet 0 0 2
2 Template:Flagicon Stefan Edberg 0 0 2
2 Template:Flagicon Goran Ivanišević 0 0 2
2 Template:Flagicon Marion Jones 0 0 2
2 Template:Flagicon Arthur Norris 0 0 2
2 Template:Flagicon Hedwiga Rosenbaumová 0 0 2

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Double crown

Players who won two events at the same Games listed below.

Year Men's singles &
men's doubles
1896 Template:Flagicon John Boland
1900 Template:Flagicon Laurence Doherty
1904 Template:Flagicon Beals Wright
1908 Template:Flagicon Arthur Gore
1912 Template:Flagicon Charles Winslow
2004 Template:Flagicon Nicolás Massú
Year Women's singles &
women's doubles
1924 Template:Flagicon Helen Wills
2000 Template:Flagicon Venus Williams
2012 Template:Flagicon Serena Williams
Year Men's doubles &
mixed doubles
1900 Template:Flagicon Reginald Doherty
Year Women's singles &
mixed doubles
1900 Template:Flagicon Charlotte Cooper
1912 Template:Flagicon Edith Hannam
1920 Template:Flagicon Suzanne Lenglen

Point distribution

From the 2004 until the 2012 Summer Olympics, the ATP and the WTA Tours awarded ranking points, for singles players only, who competed at the Summer Olympics. This was discontinued beginning with the 2016 Summer Olympics.[10][11]

2004

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2008

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2012

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See also

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References

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External links

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