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Tennis at the 1908 Summer Olympics

Tennis at the Olympics

Summary

Tennis at the Olympics

Field	Value
date	6–11 May 1908 (indoor)
6-11 July 1908 (outdoor)
edition	4th
surface	Wood (indoor)
Grass (outdoor)
multi	yes
quadrennial	yes
location	Queen's Club, West Kensington (indoor)
All England Club, Wimbledon (outdoor)
champmos	Major Ritchie
champwos	Dorothea Lambert Chambers
champmod	Reginald Doherty / George Hillyard
champmis	Arthur Gore
champwis	Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith
champmid	Herbert Roper Barrett / Arthur Gore

6-11 July 1908 (outdoor) Grass (outdoor) All England Club, Wimbledon (outdoor)

'''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A7IxdhuzhU Official 1908 Highlight Film Tennis @ 1:19]'''

Six tennis events were contested at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom. Indoor tennis events, on what were officially called 'covered courts', were held for the first time, along with the usual outdoor events. Women's events were contested, with women's singles (but not women's doubles or mixed doubles) and indoor women's singles. The indoor events were held at the covered courts of the Queen's Club and began on 6 May 1908, ahead of the official start of the Games while the outdoor tournament was played on grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club at Worple Road from 6 July through 11 July 1908. In total 50 players, 40 men and 10 women, competed. Five nations made their tennis debuts, while five more returned to competition for a total of ten nations. Two players, Les Poidevin and Wimbledon champion Anthony Wilding were nominated for Australasia but through administrative bungling they were not entered.

Tennis

Medal summary

Events

Outdoor

Women's outdoor singles	Dorothea Lambert Chambers	Dora Boothby	Ruth Winch

Indoor

Women's indoor singles	Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith	Alice Greene	Märtha Adlerstråhle

Medal table

Participating nations

50 players from 10 nations competed.

References

"Tennis at the 1908 London Summer Games". sports-reference.com.
"Tennis at the 1908 Summer Olympics". Olympedia.

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