Tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Tennis
at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
Tennis pictogram for the 2020 Summer Olympics
VenueAriake Tennis Park
Dates24 July – 1 August 2021
No. of events5
Competitors191 from 42 nations
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Tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Edition18th
SurfaceHard
Champions
Men's singles
 Alexander Zverev (GER)
Women's singles
 Belinda Bencic (SUI)
Men's doubles
 Nikola Mektić & Mate Pavić (CRO)
Women's doubles
 Barbora Krejčíková & Kateřina Siniaková (CZE)
Mixed doubles
 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova & Andrey Rublev (ROC)
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Ariake Tennis Park during the games

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 marked the fifth time that this type of surface was utilized for the Olympic Games.[1]

The format at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games was a single-elimination tournament with men's and women's singles draws consisting of 64 players.[2] There were six rounds of competition in singles, five rounds in doubles (draw size of 32), and four rounds in mixed doubles (draw size of 16). Players and teams reaching the semifinals were assured of competing for a medal with the two losing semifinalists competing for the bronze medal. All singles matches were best of three sets with a standard tiebreak (first to seven points) in every set, including the final set. In all doubles competition, a match tiebreak (first to ten points) was played instead of a third set.[3][4][5]

  1. ^ "DecoTurf® Chosen for Tennis Courts at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo". Business Wire. 1 August 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Tokyo 2020: Olympic tennis dates, entry lists, seeds and more". Women's Tennis Association. 28 July 2021. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Olympic men's final down to three sets". BBC Sport. 3 April 2019. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  4. ^ "ITF announces changes for 2020 Olympic Tennis Event". ITF. 3 April 2019. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  5. ^ "Tennis". Tokyo 2020. Archived from the original on 6 May 2021. Retrieved 21 May 2021.