Olympic Summer Games 1896 / Tennis / Men's doubles

sport	tennis
discipline	Double
gender	Men
Attendees	10 athletes from 4 countries
Competition location	Athens Lawn Tennis Club , Neo Faliro Velodrome
Competition phase	April 8-11, 1896
Medalist  Mixed team Friedrich Adolf Traun ( GER ) John Pius Boland ( GBR )      Greece Dionysios Kasdaglis Dimitrios Petrokokkinos      United Kingdom Edwin Flack George Stuart Robertson

Tennis competitions at the 1896 Olympic Games
singles	Men's
Double	Men's

The men's tennis doubles at the 1896 Summer Olympics took place from April 8th to 11th. The bronze medal in doubles went only to the defeated Flack and Robertson in the semifinals, as the result of the Greek brothers Akratopoulos was counted as a defeat in the first round. Strictly speaking, the later Olympic champions thus had a bye in the semifinals.

Results

First round

Semifinals

final

Aristidis Akratopoulos Konstantinos Akratopoulos

John Pius Boland Friedrich Adolf Traun

John Pius Boland Friedrich Adolf Traun

5

6th

6th

Dionysios Kasdaglis Dimitrios Petrococci cinema

7th

4th

1

Edwin Flack George Stuart Robertson

Konstantinos Paspatis Evangelos Rallis

Dionysios Kasdaglis Dimitrios Petrococci cinema

Dionysios Kasdaglis Dimitrios Petrococci cinema

literature

• Lampros, SP; Polites, NG; De Coubertin, Pierre; Philemon, PJ; & Anninos, C .: The Olympic Games: BC 776 - AD 1896 . Charles Beck, Athens 1897. (Available at http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1896/1896.pdf ; PDF; 10.6 MB)
• Mallon, Bill; & Widlund, Ture: The 1896 Olympic Games. Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary . McFarland, Jefferson 1998, ISBN 0-7864-0379-9 . (Excerpt available at http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/Mallon/1896.pdf ; PDF; 365 kB)
• Smith, Michael Llewellyn: Olympics in Athens 1896. The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games . Profile Books, London 2004, ISBN 1-86197-342-X .

Web links

• Draw on ITFtennis.com (English)
• Results on sports-reference.com (English)