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Not held in other editions
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Doubles, Covered Courts, Mixed

Date6 – 12 May 1912
StatusOlympic
LocationTennispaviljongen, Stockholm, Sweden
Participants16 from 3 countries
FormatSingle-elimination tournament.

In the final Edith Hannam and Charles Dixon needed three sets to defeat another British team, Helen Aitchison and Roper Barrett. Hannam also won the covered court ladies’ singles at Stockholm, while Dixon won the silver medal in the men’s singles, and, with Alfred Beamish, a bronze medal in the men’s doubles. Two months later, Dixon skipped the Olympic lawn tennis event to play at Wimbledon where he won the doubles with Roper Barrett. Later in the year he and James Parke (GBR/IRL) won the doubles title at the Australian championships, and he finished a memorable year by captaining the winning British Davis Cup squad in 1912.

PosPairNOC
1Edith Hannam / Charles DixonGBRGold
2Helen Aitchison / Roper BarrettGBRSilver
3Sigrid Fick / Gunnar SetterwallSWEBronze
4Margareta Cederschiöld / Carl KempeSWE
=5Sofie Castenschiold / Erik LarsenDEN
=5Mabel Parton / Theodore MavrogordatoGBR
=7Edith Arnheim / Carl-Olof NylénSWE
=7Ebba Hay / Frans MöllerSWE
DNSAnna Šebková / Josef ŠebekBOH
DNSMarie Decugis / Max DecugisFRA

Round One

Date6 – 7 May 1912
FormatWinner of each match advanced to round two.
MatchDate/TimePairNOCResultPairNOC
Match #1Fick / SetterwallSWEbye
Match #2Šebková / ŠebekBOHbye
Match #3Castenschiold / LarsenDENbye
Match #407 May 12:00Aitchison / BarrettGBR6-2, 6-4Arnheim / NylénSWE
Match #506 May 14:30Parton / MavrogordatoGBR6-3, 6-0Hay / MöllerSWE
Match #6Hannam / DixonGBRbye
Match #7Cederschiöld / KempeSWEbye
Match #8Decugis / DecugisFRAbye

Quarter-Finals

Date8 May 1912
FormatWinner of each match advanced to the semi-finals.
MatchDate/TimePairNOCResultPairNOC
Match #108 MayFick / SetterwallSWEŠebková / ŠebekBOHwalkover
Match #208 May 13:30Aitchison / BarrettGBR6-0, 6-3Castenschiold / LarsenDEN
Match #308 May 13:30Hannam / DixonGBR2-6, 6-4, 6-3Parton / MavrogordatoGBR
Match #408 MayCederschiöld / KempeSWEDecugis / DecugisFRAwalkover

Semi-Finals

Date9 May 1912
FormatWinner of each match advanced to the final.
MatchDate/TimePairNOCResultPairNOC
Match #109 May 13:30Aitchison / BarrettGBR3-6, 6-1, 6-2Fick / SetterwallSWE
Match #209 May 12:00Hannam / DixonGBR6-2, 6-2Cederschiöld / KempeSWE

Final Round

Date11 – 12 May 1912
MatchDate/TimePairNOCResultPairNOC
Match 1/212 May 15:30Hannam / DixonGBR4-6, 6-3, 6-2Aitchison / BarrettGBR
Match 3/411 May 17:00Fick / SetterwallSWECederschiöld / KempeSWE