2004 Summer Olympics / Tennis

Tennis at the 2004 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Marousi , Greece
Competition venue	Olympic Tennis Center
Nations	52
Athletes	170 (87 , 83 )
date	August 15-22, 2004
decisions	4th
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Four tennis competitions were held at the 2004 Olympic Games in the Greek capital, Athens .

The venue was the Olympic Tennis Center in the Athens Olympic Sports Complex , where the DecoTurf hard court was played.

Men's

singles

space	country	player
1	Chile	Nicolás Massú
2	United States	Mardy Fish
3	Chile	Fernando González
4th	United States	Taylor Dent
5	Czech Republic	Tomáš Berdych
	France	Sébastien Grosjean
	Spain	Carlos Moyá
	Russia	Mikhail Juschny

After his gold medal in doubles, the Chilean Massú also won the gold medal in singles against the American Fish after 4:00 hours. In the game for the bronze medal, Massús doubles partner González defeated his opponent Dent from the USA after 3:25 hours.

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Double

space	country	player
1	Chile	Nicolás Massú Fernando González
2	Germany	Rainer Schüttler Nicolas Kiefer
3	Croatia	Mario Ančić Ivan Ljubičić
4th	India	Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes
5	Zimbabwe	Wayne Black Kevin Ullyett
	United States	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan
	Israel	Jonathan Erlich Andy Ram
	France	Michaël Llodra Fabrice Santoro

In the final, the Chilean duo González / Massú defeated the German Schüttler and Kiefer in five sets. Kiefer / Schüttler awarded four match points in the tie-break of the fourth set. In the fifth set, both duos lost their own serve several times - after 3:43 hours and an hour asleep at 02:40 a.m. with the better ending for the Chileans. They needed four match points for the first Olympic victory in the history of Chile.

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Ladies

singles

space	country	player
1	Belgium	Justine Henin
2	France	Amélie Mauresmo
3	Australia	Alicia Molik
4th	Russia	Anastassija Myskina
5	Russia	Svetlana Kuznetsova
	France	Mary Pierce
	Italy	Francesca Schiavone
	Japan	Ai Sugiyama

The game for the gold medal was won by the Belgian Henin after 1:18 hours. The Australian Molik defeated the Russian Myskina after 1:04 hours in her match for third place. In the semifinals, Myskina led 5: 1 in the decisive third set, but lost it 6: 8.

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Double

space	country	player
1	People's Republic of China	Li Ting Sun Tiantian
2	Spain	Conchita Martínez Virginia Ruano Pascual
3	Argentina	Paola Suárez Patricia Tarabini
4th	Japan	Shinobu Asagoe Ai Sugiyama
5	France	Nathalie Dechy Sandrine Testud
	Australia	Alicia Molik Rennae Stubbs
	United States	Martina Navrátilová Lisa Raymond
	People's Republic of China	Yan Zi Zheng Jie

In the game for the gold medal, the Chinese won after 1:29 hours. The Argentine duo beat the double from Japan in 1:01 hours.

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Medal table tennis

Medal table
space	country	G	S.	B.	total
1	Chile	2	-	1	3
2	Belgium	1	-	-	1
	People's Republic of China	1	-	-	1
4th	Germany	-	1	-	1
	France	-	1	-	1
	Spain	-	1	-	1
	United States	-	1	-	1
8th	Argentina	-	-	1	1
	Australia	-	-	1	1
	Croatia	-	-	1	1