By The tennis event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will take place on the clay courts of Roland Garros from Saturday, July 27 to Sunday, August 4. This event will feature 184 players from 41 nations competing for five gold medals across men’s singles, women’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s doubles, and mixed doubles.
The singles events will have a 64-player draw, while the doubles events will feature 32 teams. The mixed doubles will consist of 16 entries. Notable players include two-time singles gold medallist Andy Murray, who is expected to make his final appearance before retirement, and other former Olympic champions like Stan Wawrinka and Rafael Nadal. Leading the current rankings are Australian Open champion Jannik Sinner and Roland Garros champion Iga Swiatek.
Grand Slam champions Novak Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz, Coco Gauff, and Elena Rybakina are also confirmed participants. Defending their Olympic titles will be Alexander Zverev, Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic, and Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova.
The format for the Olympic tennis matches will follow the WTA and ATP standards seen outside of Grand Slams. Singles matches will be best-of-three sets, and doubles matches will also be best-of-three sets, with the final set being a tie-break to 10 points.
The schedule for the events is as follows:
- Women’s singles: Saturday, July 27 – Saturday, August 3
- Men’s singles: Saturday, July 27 – Sunday, August 4
- Women’s doubles: Saturday, July 27 – Sunday, August 3
- Men’s doubles: Saturday, July 27 – Saturday, August 4
- Mixed doubles: Monday, July 29 – Friday, August 2
To qualify for the Olympics, players must meet their national federations’ Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup participation requirements. The ATP and WTA rankings as of June 10 were used for entry. Each country can have up to four singles players per gender and two doubles teams per event, with a maximum of six players per gender in total.
Russian and Belarusian athletes are not permitted to compete under their national flags, but some, like Daniil Medvedev, will compete as Individual Neutral Athletes under the IOC flag.
Representing Great Britain in the men’s singles are Cameron Norrie, Jack Draper, Dan Evans, and Andy Murray. Katie Boulter will compete in the women’s singles. In the men’s doubles, Joe Salisbury and Neal Skupski, along with Dan Evans and Andy Murray, will represent Team GB. Katie Boulter and Heather Watson will compete in the women’s doubles.
Some notable absentees from the Olympics include Aryna Sabalenka, Ons Jabeur, and Emma Raducanu, who have opted out due to various reasons, including injuries and preparation for other tournaments.
Andy Murray, who has not entered the US Open and is not part of the Great Britain squad for the Davis Cup in September, is expected to retire after the Olympics. The 37-year-old is the only tennis player with two singles gold medals, having won in London 2012 and Rio 2016, and also has a silver medal in mixed doubles from the 2012 Olympics.
