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Doubles, Men

Date11 – 16 August 2008
StatusOlympic
LocationBeijing Aolinpike Gongyuan Wangqiuchang, Beijing Aolinpike Gongyuan, Beijing
Participants64 from 24 countries
FormatSingle-elimination tournament.

The top doubles team in the world was the American pair of twin brothers, Mike and Bob Bryan. Since 2003 they had won five Grand Slam doubles titles, and been runner-up seven times. In the semi-finals they met the Swiss team of Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka. On paper they looked formidable as Federer was the best player in the world, some saying the greatest of all-time, and Wawrinka was ranked #10 in singles, but Federer virtually never played doubles and was doing so at the Olympics only out of his loyalty to Switzerland, and the pair was only seeded #4. The Bryans were upset by the Swiss team in straight sets, after losing the first set tiebreaker.

Federer/Wawrinka advanced to the final to face the Swedish team of Simon Aspelin and Thomas Johansson, who were unseeded. And they had to be tired, having survived a marathon semi-final victory over France’s Arnaud Clément and Michaël Llodra, 7-6 (6), 4-6, 19-17. The final match was close, but Federer/Wawrinka prevailed in four sets, 6-3, 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-3, to give Federer his first ever Olympic gold medal.

PosPairNOC
1Roger Federer / Stanislas WawrinkaSUIGold
2Simon Aspelin / Thomas JohanssonSWESilver
3Bob Bryan / Mike BryanUSABronze
4Arnaud Clément / Michaël LlodraFRA
=5Chris Guccione / Lleyton HewittAUS
=5Mahesh Bhupathi / Leander PaesIND
=5Igor Andreyev / Nikolay DavydenkoRUS
=5Mariusz Fyrstenberg / Marcin MatkowskiPOL
=9Julian Knowle / Jürgen MelzerAUT
=9Rafael Nadal / Tommy RobredoESP
=9Dmitry Tursunov / Mikhail YuzhnyRUS
=9Marcelo Melo / André SáBRA
=9Steve Darcis / Olivier RochusBEL
=9Andy Murray / Jamie MurrayGBR
=9Nicolás Almagro / David FerrerESP
=9Martin Damm / Pavel VíznerCZE
=17Mark Knowles / Devin MullingsBAH
=17Nicolas Kiefer / Rainer SchüttlerGER
=17Agustín Calleri / Juan MónacoARG
=17Jonas Björkman / Robin SöderlingSWE
=17Simone Bolelli / Andreas SeppiITA
=17Fernando González / Nicolás MassúCHI
=17Tomáš Berdych / Radek ŠtěpánekCZE
=17Gaël Monfils / Gilles SimonFRA
=17James Blake / Sam QuerreyUSA
=17Willy Cañas / David NalbandianARG
=17Daniel Nestor / Fred NiemeyerCAN
=17Jonathan Erlich / Andy RamISR
=17Kevin Anderson / Jeff CoetzeeRSA
=17Paul Hanley / Jordan KerrAUS
=17Yu Xinyuan / Zeng ShaoxuanCHN
=17Novak Đoković / Nenad ZimonjićSRB
DNSIvan Ljubičić / Marin ČilićCRO1

Round One

Date11 – 12 August 2008
FormatWinners advanced to round two.
MatchDate/TimeLocationPair (Seed)NOCResultPair (Seed)NOC
Match #112 Aug 10:30Court #2Bryan / BryanUSA6-2, 6-1Knowles / MullingsBAH
Match #212 AugCourt #5Knowle / MelzerAUT6-7 (3-7), 6-3, 6-1Kiefer / SchüttlerGER
Match #311 AugCourt #4Guccione / HewittAUS4-6, 7-6 (–-4), 18-16Calleri / MónacoARG
Match #411 AugCourt #2Nadal / RobredoESP6-3, 6-3Björkman / SöderlingSWE
Match #511 AugCourt #1Federer / WawrinkaSUI7-5, 6-1Bolelli / SeppiITA
Match #611 AugCourt #3Tursunov / YuzhnyRUS7-6 (7-5), 6-4González / MassúCHI
Match #712 Aug 17:00Court #9Melo / BRA5-7, 6-2, 8-6Berdych / ŠtěpánekCZE
Match #812 AugCourt #7Bhupathi / PaesIND6-3, 6-3Monfils / SimonFRA
Match #911 AugCourt #9Andreyev / DavydenkoRUS6-3, 6-4Blake / QuerreyUSA
Match #1011 Aug 17:00Court #8Darcis / RochusBEL6-7 (6-8), 7-6 (7-5), 6-3Cañas / NalbandianARG
Match #1111 AugCourt #2Murray / MurrayGBR4-6, 6-3, 6-4Nestor / NiemeyerCAN
Match #1211 AugCourt #7Clément / LlodraFRA6-4, 6-4Erlich / RamISR
Match #1311 AugCourt #5Almagro / FerrerESP3-6, 6-3, 6-4Anderson / CoetzeeRSA
Match #1411 AugCourt #8Aspelin / JohanssonSWE7-6 (9-7), 6-3Hanley / KerrAUS
Match #1512 Aug 10:30Court #7Fyrstenberg / MatkowskiPOL6-3, 6-4Yu / ZengCHN
Match #1612 AugCourt #3Damm / VíznerCZE3-6, 6-0, 6-2Đoković / ZimonjićSRB

Round Two

Date13 August 2008
FormatWinners advanced to quarter-finals.
MatchDate/TimeLocationPair (Seed)NOCResultPair (Seed)NOC
Match #113 AugCourt #3Bryan / BryanUSA7-6 (7-2), 6-4Knowle / MelzerAUT
Match #213 AugCourt #1Guccione / HewittAUS6-2, 7-6 (7-5)Nadal / RobredoESP
Match #313 AugCourt #2Federer / WawrinkaSUI6-4, 6-3Tursunov / YuzhnyRUS
Match #413 Aug 16:00Court #7Bhupathi / PaesIND6-4, 6-2Melo / BRA
Match #513 AugCourt #7Andreyev / DavydenkoRUS7-6 (8-6), 6-2Darcis / RochusBEL
Match #613 AugCourt #4Clément / LlodraFRA6-1, 6-3Murray / MurrayGBR
Match #713 AugCourt #5Aspelin / JohanssonSWE7-6 (8-6), 6-4Almagro / FerrerESP
Match #813 AugCourt #7Fyrstenberg / MatkowskiPOL1-6, 7-6 (–-3), 7-5Damm / VíznerCZE

Quarter-Finals

Date14 – 15 August 2008
FormatWinners advanced to semi-finals.
MatchDate/TimeLocationPair (Seed)NOCResultPair (Seed)NOC
Match #114 AugCourt #7Bryan / BryanUSA6-4, 6-3Guccione / HewittAUS
Match #215 Aug 16:00Court #2Federer / WawrinkaSUI6-2, 6-4Bhupathi / PaesIND
Match #314 AugCourt #3Clément / LlodraFRA6-2, 6-7 (6-7), 6-4 (–-–)Andreyev / DavydenkoRUS
Match #414 Aug 18:00Court #7Aspelin / JohanssonSWE7-6 (7-5), 6-4Fyrstenberg / MatkowskiPOL

Semi-Finals

Date15 August 2008
FormatWinners advanced to final round.
MatchDate/TimeLocationPair (Seed)NOCResultPair (Seed)NOC
Match #115 AugCourt #1Federer / WawrinkaSUI7-6 (8-6), 6-4Bryan / BryanUSA
Match #215 AugCourt #1Aspelin / JohanssonSWE7-6 (8-6), 4-6, 19-17Clément / LlodraFRA

Final Round

Date16 August 2008
MatchDate/TimeLocationPair (Seed)NOCResultPair (Seed)NOC
Match 1/216 AugCentre CourtFederer / WawrinkaSUI6-3, 6-4, 6-7 (4-7), 6-3Aspelin / JohanssonSWE
Match 3/416 AugCourt #1Bryan / BryanUSA3-6, 6-3, 6-4Clément / LlodraFRA