The nine-person Australian tennis group have began to reach within the Olympic Village forward of the Paris 2024 Olympic Tennis occasion, staged on clay at Roland Garros from Saturday 27 July to 4 July.
Paris, France, 22 July 2024 | Harriet Rendle
The nine-person Australian tennis group have began to reach within the Olympic Village.
Paris 2024 Olympic Video games Tennis occasion will likely be performed on clay at Roland Garros from Saturday 27 July to 4 July, through the first week of the Video games.
Paris 2024 marks the thirty seventh yr of Olympic Tennis and can see 15 Olympic medals awarded.
The competitors consists of 5 occasions – males’s singles (64 gamers), girls’s singles (64 gamers), males’s doubles (32 groups), girls’s doubles (32 groups) and combined doubles (16 groups).
The Australian Olympic Tennis group options 5 debutants: world No.6 Alex de Minaur, Alexei Popyrin, Rinky Hijikata, males’s doubles world No.3 Matt Ebden and Olivia Gadecki.
Ajla Tomljanovic, prime 10 girls’s doubles participant Ellen Perez and Daria Saville return for his or her second Olympic Video games.
Whereas John Friends will compete in his third Olympic Video games, equalling the second most Olympic appearances for an Australian males’s tennis participant.
Friends was the final Australian tennis participant to win an Olympic medal when he teamed up with former world No.1 and three-time Grand Slam champion Ash Barty to win the combined doubles bronze in Tokyo.
In competitors
Males’s singles: Alex de Minaur, Alexei Popyrin, Rinky Hijikata
Ladies’s singles: Ajla Tomljanovic
Males’s doubles groups: Matt Ebden & John Friends, Alex de Minaur & Alexei Popyrin
Ladies’s doubles groups: Ellen Perez & Daria Saville, Ajla Tomljanovic & Olivia Gadecki
Blended doubles: Workforce nomination will likely be submitted on Wednesday 24 July
Format
Roughly 170 tennis gamers will compete in Paris. In each the lads’s and ladies’s competitions, there’s a most of six gamers per nation, of which a most of 4 might compete within the singles occasion, a most of two groups might compete within the doubles occasion, and one group within the combined doubles.
Every competitors includes a knockout draw. Singles matches are best-of-three tiebreak units. In doubles, if the rating is tied at one set all, a 10-point tiebreaker will likely be performed to find out the winner.
In all occasions, the semifinal winners play to resolve the gold and silver medals and the semifinal losers play for the bronze.
The official draw for the Olympic Tennis occasion will likely be held at 11am native time, Thursday 25 July.
Schedule
Play will begin at 12.00pm on Saturday 27 July throughout 12 match courts together with Roland Garros’ three prized stadium courts – Philippe Chatrier, Suzanne Lenglen and Simonne Matheiu.
Males’s and ladies’s singles and males’s and ladies’s doubles will begin on the primary day of play. The combined doubles will begin on Monday 29 July.
Olympic Tennis historical past
Tennis appeared on the Olympic program in Athens 1886 and remained till Paris 1924. It returned at Seoul 1988. Blended doubles was added at London 2012.
Edwin Flack received Australia’s first Olympic Tennis medal, a bronze alongside Englishman George Robertson within the males’s doubles in 1986. In 1900, girls made their Olympic Tennis debut.
Since Seoul 1988, 9 Australian gamers have received Olympic medals together with one gold, one silver and 4 bronze medals.
Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde (The Woodies) have been essentially the most profitable Australian gamers on the Olympics, successful Australia’s solely gold medal in males’s doubles at Atlanta 1996. They received a silver medal at Sydney 2000.
Elizabeth Smylie and Wendy Turnbull received bronze within the girls’s doubles at Seoul 1988 and Rachel McQuillan and Nicole Bradtke additionally claimed a bronze medal at Barcelona 1992.
At Athens 2004, Alicia Molik received Australia’s first particular person tennis medal, a bronze within the girls’s singles.
At Tokyo 2020, Australia received their first medal since Athens, with Ash Barty and John Friends combining to win bronze within the combined doubles.
