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Tennis at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Field	Value
date	19-28 September 2000
edition	13
location	NSW Tennis Centre, Sydney
surface	Hard (Rebound Ace)
multi	yes
quadrennial	yes
champms	Yevgeny Kafelnikov
champws	Venus Williams
champmd	Sébastien Lareau / Daniel Nestor
champwd	Serena Williams / Venus Williams

Tennis was one of the 28 sports that was held at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. The competition which was held from 19-28 September at the NSW Tennis Centre, saw four gold medals being contested with them being in the singles and doubles of both sexes.

The format at the 2000 Olympics was a single-elimination tournament with the men's and women's singles being 64 players. They competed in six rounds of competition in the singles and five rounds in the doubles (sizes of 32). The format consisted of three set matches with five set matches being only played in the men's singles and doubles final.

The United States finished on top of the medal table with two gold medals as Venus Williams won both the women's singles and doubles with Serena Williams. In the men's events, Yevgeny Kafelnikov from Russia secured the men's singles title while Canadian pair, Sébastien Lareau and Daniel Nestor took the men's doubles.

Medal summary

Events

Women's doubles	USA
Venus Williams
Serena Williams	NED
Kristie Boogert
Miriam Oremans	BEL
Els Callens
Dominique van Roost

Medal table

References

Official Olympic Report

Wikipedia Source

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