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The women's singles tennis event at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place from 27 July to 3 August 2024 at the Stade Roland Garros, in Paris, France. [9] There were 64 players from 28 nations. [10] Belinda Bencic was the reigning gold medalist from 2021, but was on maternity leave. [11]
It was also China's second tennis gold medal after Li Ting and Sun Tiantian won the women's doubles in Athens in 2004. Zheng's gold medal followed an upset win in the semifinals over world #1 Iga Swiatek of Poland, the four-time and three-time defending French Open champion who had won 25 straight matches at Roland Garros. [7]
The programme of the 2024 Summer Olympics featured 329 events in 32 sports, including the 28 "core" Olympic sports contested in 2016 and 2020, [1] and four optional sports that were proposed by the Paris Organising Committee: breaking made its Olympic debut as an optional sport, while skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing returned from 2020.
Andy Murray is the only men's player to have won two singles gold medals. Only on three occasions has a player defended their gold medal: Gigi Fernández and Mary Joe Fernández in women's doubles in 1992 and 1996, Serena Williams and Venus Williams in women's doubles in 2008 and 2012, and Andy Murray in the men's singles in 2012 and 2016.
Katerina Siniakova and Tomas Machac hugged and kissed each other when they won the 2024 Olympics mixed doubles tennis gold medal for the Czech Republic on Friday night, then laughed about keeping ...
Women's singles – Bronze Medal Match Iga Świątek [1] Anna Karolína Schmiedlová 6–2, 6–1 [59] Men's singles – Semifinals Novak Djokovic [1] Lorenzo Musetti [11] 6-4, 6–2 [60] Mixed doubles – Gold Medal Match Kateřina Siniaková Tomáš Macháč Wang Xinyu Zhang Zhizhen
Matt Ebden's 2024 Olympics started with his first singles match in more than two years — a 6-0, 6-1 loss to Novak Djokovic as a fill-in after other players pulled out of that event. A week later ...
Jacobs' win in Tokyo was stunning for track and field followers, as there had been nothing in his career that led one to believe he was a gold medal candidate in the sport's quadrennial marquee event.