The 2017 Australian Open was a tennis tournament that took place at Melbourne Park between 16–29 January 2017. A trio of players also represented China in the women's draw, although all three qualified automatically, unlike in the men's. Noble and elegant, the medals are a blending of traditional Chinese culture and Olympism. All statistics are according to the ATP World Tour website. He was continuously ranked in the top 100 in doubles from April 1994 to April 2018, a total of 1134 consecutive weeks. This is a list of the main career statistics of professional tennis player Rafael Nadal. Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's doubles; Point in time: 2008: Start time: 10 August 2008: End time: 17 August 2008: Authority control A total of four sets of medals were awarded for the four events contested. [3] [4] For the doubles competitions, 10 players qualified directly. Retrieved from Beijing Olympics 2008 official website. Media: 24,562 accredited media representing 159 countries. This contained a CD-ROM and four DVDs, featuring the results, films of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies and key documents. The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) is a main men's tennis governing body. The previous record was held by Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde (Australia) and Jacco Eltingh and Paul Haarhuis (Netherlands), who competed a 54-game match (6–2, 5–7, 18–16) at the 1996 event. With his ninth participation in the Games and at the age of 61, Canada’s Ian Millar won his first medal in the team jumping event. 1, after Slobodan Živojinović. Some 87 of them celebrated their medal-winning athletes. The highest seed to exit was Spain's David Ferrer (number five). Matches were in best-of-3 sets, except for the final which was in best-of-5 sets. Dutchman Maarten Van Der Weijden won the men’s 10km marathon, while in the women’s race, the title went to Russia’s Larisa Ilchenko. The medals symbolise nobility and virtue and are the embodiment of traditional Chinese values of ethics and honour, emitting a strong Chinese flavour. [1] Rafael Nadal's gold for Spain made him the first Spanish tennis player to win a gold medal at the Olympics, and Nadal was also the first player from within the men's top 5 ranking to win in Olympic competition. The player who is unable to return the ball will not gain a point, while the opposite player will. Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's Singles, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tennis_at_the_2008_Summer_Olympics_–_Women%27s_singles&oldid=962315185, Women's events at the 2008 Summer Olympics, Pages using infobox tennis tournament year footer with an unknown event, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 13 June 2020, at 09:50. [6] However, many players expressed their enthusiasm for the Games, including Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, [24] Jonas Björkman, Nicolás Massú, [16] Andy Murray, [25] Jelena Janković, [26] Elena Dementieva, [27] Alicia Molik, [16] and Venus and Serena Williams. Fernando González, who won the silver medal in men's singles, became the first tennis player since Charles Winslow (at Stockholm 1912 and Antwerp 1920) to win consecutive Olympic medals, having won gold (doubles) and bronze (singles) in 2004. Nadal also won the Davis Cup 4 times for Spain in 2004, 2008, 2009 and 2011. A total of four sets of medals were awarded for the four events contested. The city, located in northern China, is governed as a municipality under the direct administration of the central government with 16 urban, suburban, and rural districts. [38] [39] The favorites included Jelena Janković, who assumed the world number one ranking on August 11, the second day of the tennis tournament; Russians Svetlana Kuznetsova, the world number three, Elena Dementieva, who was a silver medalist at the 2000 Summer Olympics, and Dinara Safina, the French Open finalist who had won back-to-back tournaments in the weeks before the Olympics; and the Williams sisters Venus and Serena, who had strong Olympic pedigree having won the singles (Venus) and doubles in 2000, and who had recently played each other in the Wimbledon final. The Men's Singles tennis competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing was held from August 10 to August 17 at the Olympic Green Tennis Centre. The 2013 ATP World Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments, the ATP World Tour Masters 1000, the ATP World Tour 500 series, the ATP World Tour 250 series, the Davis Cup and the ATP World Tour Finals. [21] Players had been further incentivized to compete at the Olympics after the ATP and WTA began awarding ranking points as of the 2000 Games. The 2013 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London in England. Volunteers: 100,000 (70,000 Olympic Games, 30,000 Paralympic Games) Elena Dementieva of Russia defeated compatriot Dinara Safina, 3–6, 7–5, 6–3, and took the gold. Sun Peng was originally the only Chinese man to enter the men's singles, and did so through the ITF places. The design inspiration of the medal hook derives from jade "huang", a ceremonial jade piece decorated with a double dragon pattern and "Pu", the reed mat pattern. The size of the singles draw, 64, meant that there were six rounds of competition in total, [42] with five in the doubles owing to its smaller draw size of 32. The 2008 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London in England. The competition was played on a fast hardcourt surface used in numerous North American tournaments that aims to minimize disruption for players. Strombergs and Chausson first BMX Olympic champions. This page was last edited on 31 May 2018, at 14:31. 1 spot in the ATP rankings for a record total of 310 weeks and was the year-end No. August 18, 2008. (sr), Tennis events during the 2008 Summer Olympics, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Tennis_at_the_2008_Summer_Olympics&oldid=303952046, Uses of Wikidata Infobox providing interwiki links, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's singles, Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's singles, Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification, Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's doubles, Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's doubles. [43] Players reaching the semi-final were assured of an opportunity to compete for a medal, as the two losers in the semi-finals contested a bronze medal match. The Russian team of Dinara Safina and Svetlana Kuznetsova, which combined two top ten singles players, progressed too. 1 in the ATP Rankings for the first time, ending Roger Federer's record streak of 237 consecutive weeks.[1]. The rankings of July 9 were used to determine the direct entrants. Two seeds fell, both to Chinese opponents: Li Na defeated number three seed Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia), and number 11 Ágnes Szávay (Hungary) lost to Zheng Jie. Total distance: 137 000 km including 1 528 in Greece and 97 000 in continental China [1]. The pair were subsequently forced to withdraw from the Olympics. NOCs: 204 It governs the WTA Tour which is the worldwide professional tennis tour for women and was founded to create a better future for women's tennis. For the next 6 Olympics, it remained in official programme before being taken out of it from 1928. The DecoTurf surface rendered the event a hardcourt tournament. The tennis competition at the Olympic Games consisted of a single elimination tournament. Daniel Mark Nestor is a Canadian retired professional tennis player. The 2008 US Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. Tiebreakers were not played in the final set. Crédit : Kishimoto. Lleyton Glynn Hewitt is a retired Australian professional tennis player and former world No. Tennis competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were held from August 10 to August 17 at the Olympic Green Tennis Centre. Matches were in best-of-3 sets, except for the final which was in best-of-5 sets. Remaining Courts – 7 courts seating for 200 seats each. This method of forming teams meant that Canadian world number one Daniel Nestor [7] had to find a new partner (his partner at the time was Serb Nenad Zimonjić) [8] and led one South African player, Liezel Huber, to seek U.S. citizenship so that she had the opportunity to play. The National Stadium, nick-named the “Bird’s Nest”, and the National Swimming Centre, known as the “Water Cube”, were both stunning symbols of the new Beijing. 1. Huang Liping (gymnastics). On 19 April 2010, Huber became the sole No. The DecoTurf surface rendered the event a hardcourt tournament. Also included in the 2009 calendar is the Hopman Cup, which does not distribute ranking points, and is organised by the ITF. However, play was suspended again at 4.26 p.m., and eventually cancelled for the rest of the day. The medal for the runner-up is made of pure silver. The set consists of three printed volumes (Bid documents and analysis; Ceremonies and competitions; Preparation for the Games) and a multimedia volume, which had now become standard. Nicolás Massú was the reigning gold medalist, having won at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, however he lost to David Nalbandian in the second round. Matches were in best-of-3 sets, except for the final which was in best-of-5 sets. The men's singles featured the first time an Olympic tennis player had medaled in consecutive Olympiads since the 1920 games, [2] while the men's doubles gave Switzerland its first medal in the event. Elsewhere, defending champions Massu and Gonzalez exited, Steve Darcis and Olivier Rochus (Belgium) defeated Guillermo Cañas and David Nalbandian (Argentina) in a match that exceeded two and a half hours, and Canada's only doubles team of Nestor and Niemeyer lost to the Murray brothers of Andy and Jamie (Great Britain). [5] This method of allocating doubles places angered some players, such as Leander Paes, and led to some perceived discrepancies: Martin Damm and Pavel Vízner of the Czech Republic, ranked eighth in the ATP Race, were not seeded, whereas Nicolás Almagro and David Ferrer of Spain, who were highly ranked in singles but had not played doubles together before, were seeded fifth. A record 204 National Olympic Committees took part in the Games. While on their reverse side, the medals are inlaid with jade with the Beijing Games emblem engraved in the metal centrepiece. From the second round of the 2008 Hamburg Masters to the semi-finals of the 2008 Cincinnati Masters (the last tournament before the Games), winning the French Open and Wimbledon in between, Nadal had won 32 consecutive matches. For the Olympics, the men's player who won received 400 ranking points [54] —put in perspective, this was 100 more than a win at the most prestigious International Series Gold tournaments, 100 less than a Masters Series win, and 600 less than a triumph at one of the four Grand Slam tournaments. As of March 2018, he is 10th for most men's ATP titles in Open Era history. Its headquarters are in Lausanne (Switzerland) and its courts are located in New York City, Sydney and Lausanne. The number six seed, Britain's Andy Murray, also lost, playing against Chinese Taipei representative Lu Yen-hsun. In the doubles, as in every team event at the Olympics, athletes had to compete on the side of athletes from the same NOC. 2008 Beijing Olympic Games - Table Tennis. [48] [49], The men's doubles competition also began, having originally been scheduled to start on Day 1. The last runner of the Olympic Torch relay Li Ning prepares to light the Olympic cauldron. [9] [50], Seeds who progressed in the women's singles included Janković (Serbia), the Williams sisters (United States), Vera Zvonareva (Russia), and Victoria Azarenka (Belarus). Two hundred and four National Olympic Committees (NOCs) took part in the Beijing Olympic Games - a record! As of 2008 Beijing Games, it is USA that is at the top with 17 gold medals. The tournament consisted of events for professional players in singles, doubles and mixed doubles play. Final results for the Tennis competition at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. The Men's Singles tennis competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing was held from August 10 to August 17 at the Olympic Green Tennis Centre.

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