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The tennis tournaments at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris ran from 27 July to 4 August at the Stade Roland Garros. [1] The event featured a total of 175 players across five medal events: singles and doubles for both men and women and mixed doubles.
The Paris Olympics are about to begin! In tennis, the rankings on the professional men's and women's tours determine who will qualify, and they are taken from right after the end of the French ...
Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) can enter a maximum of twelve tennis players (six per gender) with a maximum of four entries each in the men's and women's singles (the best ranked within their respective country), two pairs each in the men's and women's doubles and a single pair in the mixed doubles. [1] [4]
China's Zheng Qinwen defeated Croatia's Donna Vekić in the final, 6–2, 6–3 to win the gold medal in women's singles tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics.It was China's first victory in the women's singles, the country's first gold medal in Olympic tennis since the women's doubles in 2004, the first singles gold medal for an Asian country in Olympic tennis, and also the first women's singles ...
Navarro, who attended Ashley Hall in Charleston and the University of Virginia, was seeded No. 11 for the Olympic women’s tournament, and is ranked No. 15 on the World Tennis Association Tour.
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 ...
Russian tennis players Karen Kachanov and Liudmila Samsonova declined to play at the Paris Olympics, the IOC said on Friday, and their next highest ranked compatriots were invited instead. The IOC ...
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.