2008 Summer Olympics / Tennis

Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Beijing , China
Competition venue	Olympic Green tennis center
Nations	48
Athletes	169 (86 , 83 )
date	August 10th to 17th, 2008
decisions	4th
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Center Court of the Olympic Tennis Center

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing , 4 tennis competitions were held, in men's singles, men's doubles, women's singles and women's doubles. The competitions took place from August 10th to 17th, 2008. The venue was the Olympic Green Tennis Center . In the facility, the DecoTurf hard court was played.

Like the tournaments of the ATP Tour and the WTA Tour, the Olympic tournament was played in the knockout process from the first round. In contrast to the tournaments of the tennis associations, the losers of the semifinals played a game for the bronze medal at the Olympic Games.

Qualification criteria

A National Olympic Committee (NOK) could nominate up to six men and six women for the Olympic tennis tournament. In the individual competitions, the number of athletes was limited to 64 each. No more than four athletes from one NOK were allowed to compete. 32 couples took part in each of the double competitions. The maximum number of participants per NOK was two couples. Individual athletes could compete in both individual tournaments and doubles.

The qualification rules provided for the nomination of 48 athletes in each individual tournament on the basis of the tennis world ranking of June 9, 2008. Four weeks later, on July 2nd, 2008, another eight starting places were awarded based on the world rankings. In addition, there were six starting places for continental representatives. As early as March 31, 2008, the World Tennis Federation (ITF) had given the four players Komlavi Loglo , Rafael Arévalo (both men), Cara Black and Stephanie Vogt (both women) invitations for the tournament.

On June 9, 2008, ten couples were nominated for the two double tournaments based on their world rankings. On July 2, 2008, the field was filled in taking into account the qualifications for the individual tournaments and continental aspects.

Men's

singles

space	country	player
1	Spain	Rafael Nadal
2	Chile	Fernando González
3	Serbia	Novak Đoković
4th	United States	James Blake
5	Switzerland	Roger Federer
	France	Paul-Henri Mathieu
	Austria	Jürgen Melzer
	France	Gaël Monfils

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Roger Federer at the Olympic tennis tournament

Double

space	country	player
1	Switzerland	Roger Federer Stan Wawrinka
2	Sweden	Simon Aspelin Thomas Johansson
3	United States	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan
4th	France	Arnaud Clément Michaël Llodra
5	Australia	Chris Guccione Lleyton Hewitt
	India	Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes
	Russia	Igor Andreyev Nikolai Dawydenko
	Poland	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski

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Ladies

singles

space	country	Player
1	Russia	Jelena Dementjewa
2	Russia	Dinara Safina
3	Russia	Vera Swonaryova
4th	People's Republic of China	Li Na
5	Austria	Sybille Bammer
	United States	Serena Williams
	United States	Venus Williams
	Serbia	Jelena Janković

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Double

space	country	Player
1	United States	Serena Williams Venus Williams
2	Spain	Anabel Medina Garrigues Virginia Ruano Pascual
3	People's Republic of China	Yan Zi Zheng Jie
4th	Ukraine	Aljona Bondarenko Kateryna Bondarenko
5	Russia	Svetlana Kuznetsova Dinara Safina
	United States	Lindsay Davenport Liezel Huber
	Italy	Flavia Pennetta Francesca Schiavone
	Russia	Elena Wesnina Vera Swonaryova

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Medal table tennis

Medal table tennis
space	country	G	S.	B.	total
1	Russia	1	1	1	3
2	Spain	1	1	-	2
3	United States	1	-	1	2
4th	Switzerland	1	-	-	1
5	Chile	-	1	-	1
	Sweden	-	1	-	1
7th	People's Republic of China	-	-	1	1
	Serbia	-	-	1	1

Web links

Commons : Tennis at the 2008 Olympics  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• International Tennis Federation - Olympic Tennis Event