Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Dates 10 – 17 August 2008
Medal Events 4

The 2008 tennis competition was contested at the Beijing Aolinpike Gongyuan Wangqiuchang, or the Olympic Green Tennis Centre. It was a specially built tennis facility for the 2008 Olympics, which was completed in 2007, and since 2009, has hosted the China Open on the ATP Tour.

There were four events with both men and women contesting singles and doubles. The four events were won by four different nations, with eight nations winning medals. The top medal-winning nation was Russia, with three, based on their women’s singles players who swept the medals in that event. The competition was marred by poor weather, with multiple rain delays that caused the medal matches to be moved to Sunday.

Events

Event Status Date Participants NOCs
Singles, Men Olympic 10 – 17 August 2008 64 33
Doubles, Men Olympic 11 – 16 August 2008 64 24
Singles, Women Olympic 10 – 17 August 2008 64 33
Doubles, Women Olympic 12 – 17 August 2008 62 21
169 (86/83) 48 (36/33)

Medals

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Singles, Men Rafael NadalESP Fernando GonzálezCHI Novak ĐokovićSRB
Doubles, Men SwitzerlandSUI Sweden 2SWE United States 1USA
Singles, Women Yelena DementyevaRUS Dinara SafinaRUS Vera ZvonaryovaRUS
Doubles, Women United States 2USA Spain 1ESP People's Republic of China 1CHN

Medal table

NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total
Russian Federation RUS 1 1 1 3
Spain ESP 1 1 0 2
United States USA 1 0 1 2
Switzerland SUI 1 0 0 1
Chile CHI 0 1 0 1
Sweden SWE 0 1 0 1
People's Republic of China CHN 0 0 1 1
Serbia SRB 0 0 1 1