Tennis Olympic sports London 2012

The sport's top stars will be returning to Wimbledon just three weeks after the end of the annual grand slam tournament, in the hope of being crowned Olympic champion on the grass of Centre Court.

The Tennis events at London 2012 span nearly the entire Games, starting on Saturday 28 July and wrapping up with medal events on Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 August.

View the full London 2012 Tennis schedule

All entries for Tennis will be confirmed following the sport entries deadline on 9 July 2012.

Wimbledon is not only home to one of the most famous tennis tournaments in the world, but also has a rich Olympic heritage. The venue staged the Tennis competition when London first hosted the Olympic Games in 1908, with Great Britain winning all six gold medals.

At Beijing 2008, Rafael Nadal won the men’s Singles, while Venus and Serena Williams sisters triumphed in the women’s Doubles. See the full medal table from Beijing 2008

If a football match is a game of two halves, a tennis match is all about points, games and sets. Winning points, wins games and winning games, wins sets and sets win matches.
A player will win a point if they hit a shot that their opponent can not return or their opponent’s shot lands outside the court. Each contested point is worth 15 points to your score, so if one player has won two points and the other just one the score would be 30-15.
To win a single game a player must win four points, by two clear points. To win a set a player must win six or seven games and be two games ahead of his opponent. If the score is 6-6 a tiebreak will be played where the winner is the first to seven by a margin of two or more points. To win a match a player must win two out of three sets.
At the Games, the tennis will be played according to a knockout format, with the winners of the semis facing each other on Wimbledon’s famous Centre Court for the gold medals.
All matches will be played to the best of three sets, apart from the men's singles final, which is the best of five sets. Alll mixed doubles matches will be a best of two sets and will be settled with a first-to-10 tie-break if they reach one set all.
Events / disciplines
Men’s singles, women’s singles
Men’s doubles, women’s doubles
Mixed doubles
Gold medals available
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