Tennis has lengthy been a headlining attraction amongst summer time sports activities.
With main tournaments like Wimbledon and the US Open and main champions like Iga Swiatek and Carlos Alcaraz, tennis is having fun with yet one more summer time of greatness.
However this summer time brings an additional deal with. A few of tennis’s greatest stars, together with Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal, will head to Paris to compete within the 2024 Summer time Olympics.
What makes Olympic tennis totally different from tennis’s different summer time occasions?
Here is every little thing it is advisable to find out about tennis on the Olympics.
When will the tennis competitors happen on the 2024 Summer time Olympics?
The Olympic tennis occasion shall be held from July 27-Aug. 4.
The place will the tennis competitors be held on the Summer time Olympics?
Tennis shall be performed on the clay at Roland Garros, the identical web site the place the French Open is performed.
What number of tennis occasions are within the Olympics?
The Paris Summer time Olympics will characteristic 5 tennis competitions: males’s singles, males’s doubles, ladies’s singles, ladies’s doubles and blended doubles.
What’s the format of tennis on the Olympics?
The Paris Summer time Olympics will characteristic single-elimination tournaments for every of the 5 competitions. Each males’s and girls’s singles will embrace 64 rivals, whereas the doubles’ competitions will every have 32 groups.
Sixteen gamers are seeded in singles and eight groups are seeded in doubles, with the remaining gamers/groups positioned into brackets. Seeding is predicated on the most recent worldwide rankings.
Losers are eradicated from play till the sphere is right down to 4 gamers/groups. The semifinal winners will play for the gold and silver medals, whereas the losers within the semifinals will play to find out the winner of the bronze medal.
What number of units are performed in Olympic tennis?
Olympic tennis tournaments are a best-of-three set format, with a normal tiebreak on the finish of every set, together with the deciding set.
Who has certified to play for Crew USA?
Males: Taylor Fritz, Tommy Paul, Frances Tiafoe, Sebastian Korda and Rajeev Ram (doubles)
Girls: Coco Gauff, Jessica Pegula, Danielle Collins, Madison Keys and Nicole Melichar-Martinez (doubles)
Who received singles gold on the 2020 Summer time Olympics?
Germany’s Alexander Zverev received the gold medal in males’s singles, whereas Switzerland’s Belinda Bencic received gold in ladies’s singles. Bencic is not going to be defending her medal in Paris as a consequence of her being on maternity depart.
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