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Reginald Doherty, four-time Olympic medalist Venus Williams, five-time Olympic medalist. Tennis was first contested as a Summer Olympic sport in the 1896 Olympic Games until 1924 (excluding 1916 due to World War I), before going on hiatus due to disputes between the International Lawn Tennis Federation and the International Olympic Committee over how to define amateur players.
It was Australia's first Olympic gold medal in tennis since 1996. [2] Ebden and Peers were the first unseeded pair to win the gold medal since Fernando González and Nicolás Massú in 2004 . [ a ] In the bronze medal match, Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul of the United States defeated Czechia 's Tomáš Macháč and Adam Pavlásek , 6–3, 6–4.
1 Grand Slam doubles title and 1 Olympic doubles gold medal → 1999 U.S. Open doubles champion, partnering Alex O’Brien • 2000 Olympic doubles gold medalist, partnering Daniel Nestor • 1999 Tennis Masters Cup champion, partnering O’Brien William Larned: 1872: 1926: United States: 1956
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 ...
The event featured a total of 175 players across five medal events: singles and doubles for both men and women and mixed doubles. [2] [3] Similar to previous editions, the Paris 2024 format was set in a single-elimination tournament with the men's and women's singles draws consisting of 64 players. The tennis tournaments featured six rounds in ...
This was Croatia's first Olympic tennis gold and silver medals. For the first time since 1908 , the gold medal match was contested by pairs representing the same country. In the bronze medal match, New Zealand 's Marcus Daniell and Michael Venus defeated the United States ' Austin Krajicek and Tennys Sandgren , 7–6 (7–3) , 6–2.
List of men's doubles Grand Slam tournament champions in tennis: [1]. Ken McGregor and Frank Sedgman are the only doubles players and team to achieve a Grand Slam, doing so in 1951, [2] (the Bryans won four consecutive majors, but over the course of two calendar years), and their seven consecutive major titles remain the longest title streak in men's doubles major history.
In tennis, the Grand Slam tournaments, the Masters Series tournaments and the Year-end Championship are considered the top-tier events of the men's professional tour annual calendar, in addition to the Olympics. They are collectively known as the 'Big Titles'. [1] The ATP defined the mandatory events (Slams, Masters and YEC) as follows