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Tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo was held between 24 July and 1 August 2021 at the Ariake Tennis Park. The tournament featured 191 players in five events: singles and doubles for both men and women and mixed doubles. The hard-court Deco Turf surface at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games was chosen by the Tokyo Organizing Committee. This ...
Germany's Alexander Zverev defeated Karen Khachanov of the Russian Olympic Committee in the final, 6–3, 6–1, to win the gold medal in men's singles tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics. It was both countries' first medals at the event since 2000, and Germany's first victory. [1]
Tennis was not a medal sport from 1928 to 1984, though there were demonstration events in 1968 and 1984. [ 5 ] This was the first Olympic tournament since 1996 not to feature the Williams sisters in the draw after Serena withdrew for family commitments and Venus 's ranking had not been high enough to qualify for the team.
The 2020 Summer Olympics order of play for matches on the main courts, starting from 24 July until July 1 August. [ 1 ] All dates and times are JST ( UTC+09:00 ).
Croatia's Nikola Mektić and Mate Pavić defeated compatriots Marin Čilić and Ivan Dodig in the final, 6–4, 3–6, [10–6] to win the gold medal in Men's Doubles tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics. This was Croatia's first Olympic tennis gold and silver medals.
Olympics tennis uses a best-of-three-set format for all matches. In other men’s third-round results, Carlos Alcaraz of Spain got past Roman Safiulin of Russia 6-4, 6-2, Felix Auger-Aliassime of ...
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Andrey Rublev of the Russian Olympic Committee defeated compatriots Elena Vesnina and Aslan Karatsev in the final, 6–3, 6–7 (5–7), [13–11] to win the gold medal in Mixed Doubles tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
The playing surface of the court varies between Olympic Games. It has been on hard court for every Olympics since 1984 except for the 1992 Olympics (which was on a clay court), the 2012 Olympics (which was played on a grass court) and the 2024 Olympics (which was played on a clay court). The changing playing surface gives certain players ...