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Serena Williams has dominated Olympic tennis, winning 3 gold medals.

Tennis or lawn tennis is currently part of the Summer Olympic Games program, and has been intermittently since the 1896 Summer Olympics. It was eventually dropped after the 1924 Summer Olympics because of an ongoing dispute between the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Tennis Federation over allowing amateur players to compete.[1] It was formally reinstated in the 1988 Summer Olympics following two appearances as a demonstration sport, and a Mixed doubles event was added at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Ever since the 2004 Summer Olympics, results from the Olympics have counted towards both ATP and WTA world rankings. A gold medal in singles is particularly sought after by high-profile players as they wish to complete a 'Career Golden Slam' - only two players have done this thus far, Steffi Graf (1988) and Serena Williams (2012).

Mens

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Singles

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Outcome Year Location Surface Winner Score
Gold 1896 Athens, Greece Unknown United Kingdom John Pius Boland Unknown
Gold 1900 Paris, France Unknown United Kingdom Lawrence Doherty Unknown
Gold 1904 St. Louis, United States Unknown United States Beals Wright Unknown
Gold 1908 London, United Kingdom Unknown United Kingdom Josiah Ritchie Unknown
Gold 1912 Stockholm, Sweeden Unknown South Africa Charles Winslow Unknown
Gold 1920 Antwerp, Belgium Unknown South Africa Louis Raymond Unknown
Gold 1924 Paris, France Unknown United States Vincent Richards Unknown
Gold 1988 Seoul Olympic Park Tennis Center, Seoul, South Korea Hardcourt Czechoslovakia Miloslav Mečíř Unknown
Gold 1992 Tennis de la Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain Clay Switzerland Marc Rosset Unknown
Gold 1996 Stone Mountain Tennis Center, Atlanta, USA Hardcourt United States Andre Agassi Unknown
Gold 2000 NSW Tennis Centre, Sydney, Australia Hardcourt Russia Yevgeny Kafelnikov Unknown
Gold 2004 Athens Olympic Tennis Centre, Athens, Greece Hardcourt Chile Nicolás Massú Unknown
Gold 2008 Olympic Green Tennis Center, Beijing, China Hardcourt Spain Rafael Nadal Unknown
Gold 2012 Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom Grass United Kingdom, Andy Murray Unknown

Womens

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Singles

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Outcome Year Location Surface Winner Score
Gold 1900 Paris, France Unknown United Kingdom Charlotte Cooper Unknown
1904*
Gold ** 1908 London, United Kingdom Indoor United Kingdom Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith Unknown
Gold ** 1908 London, United Kingdom Outdoor United Kingdom Dorothea Chambers Unknown
Gold ** 1912 Stockholm, Sweeden Indoor United Kingdom Edith Hannan Unknown
Gold ** 1912 Stockholm, Sweeden Outdoor France Marguerite Brocquedis Unknown
Gold 1920 Antwerp, Belgium Unknown United Kingdom Suzanne Lenglen Unknown
Gold 1924 Paris, France Unknown United States Helen Wills Moody Unknown
Gold 1988 Seoul Olympic Park Tennis Center, Seoul, South Korea Hardcourt Germany Steffi Graf 6-3, 6-3
Gold 1992 Tennis de la Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain Clay United States Jennifer Capriati 6-3, 3-6, 4-6
Gold 1996 Stone Mountain Tennis Center, Atlanta, USA Hardcourt United States Lindsay Davenport 7–6(10–8), 6–2
Gold 2000 NSW Tennis Centre, Sydney, Australia Hardcourt United States Venus Williams 6–2, 6–4
Gold 2004 Athens Olympic Tennis Centre, Athens, Greece Hardcourt Belgium Justine Henin-Hardenne 6–3, 6–3
Gold 2008 Olympic Green Tennis Center, Beijing, China Hardcourt Russia Elena Dementieva 3–6, 7–5, 6–3
Gold 2012 Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom Grass United States Serena Williams 6-0, 6-1
* Women were restricted from playing in the 1904 Summer Olympics
** Two gold medals were awarded in a singles event, one for an outdoor event and one for an indoor event.

References

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  1. ^ "Olympic Events Through History". Retrieved 5 August 2012.