Tennis at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Tennis tournament

Tennis at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Date| 15–22 August 2004
Edition| 14
Surface| Hard (DecoTurf)
Location| Athens Olympic Tennis Centre, Athens
Champions
Men's singles
Nicolás Massú
Chile
Women's singles
Justine Henin
Belgium
Men's doubles
Fernando González / Nicolás Massú
Chile
Women's doubles
Li Ting / Sun Tiantian
China
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Tennis at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens took place on ten separate courts at the Olympic Tennis Centre. The surface was hardcourt.

172 players competed in four events. 2004 saw more of the top ranked players appearing, as this tournament saw world ranking points allocated to the players for the first time. Martina Navratilova made her first appearance at the Olympic Games where she partnered with Lisa Raymond in the ladies doubles.

Chile finished on top of the medal table with its first two Olympic gold medals in history, as Nicolás Massú won both the men's singles and doubles with Fernando González. They saved 4 consecutive championship points en route to the title in the 4th set tiebreak of the final. González also won a bronze medal in the men's singles competition. In the women's events, Justine Henin from Belgium secured the women's singles title while Chinese pair, Li Ting and Sun Tiantian took the women's doubles.

## Medal summary

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### Events

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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Men's singles | Nicolás Massú
Chile | Mardy Fish
United States | Fernando González
Chile
Men's doubles |  Chile (CHI)
Fernando González
Nicolás Massú |  Germany (GER)
Nicolas Kiefer
Rainer Schüttler |  Croatia (CRO)
Mario Ančić
Ivan Ljubičić
Women's singles | Justine Henin
Belgium | Amélie Mauresmo
France | Alicia Molik
Australia
Women's doubles |  China (CHN)
Li Ting
Sun Tiantian |  Spain (ESP)
Conchita Martínez
Virginia Ruano Pascual |  Argentina (ARG)
Paola Suárez
Patricia Tarabini

### Medal table

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Andy Roddick vs. Tommy Haas. 4–6, 6–3, 9–7 in 2nd round Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Chile (CHI)| 2| 0| 1| 3
2|  Belgium (BEL)| 1| 0| 0| 1
China (CHN)| 1| 0| 0| 1
4|  France (FRA)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Germany (GER)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Spain (ESP)| 0| 1| 0| 1
United States (USA)| 0| 1| 0| 1
8|  Argentina (ARG)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Australia (AUS)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Croatia (CRO)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (10 entries)| 4| 4| 4| 12

## External links

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* Official result book – Tennis

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