List of Olympic venues in tennis

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For the Summer Olympics , there are 15 venues that have been used for tennis . This counts separately the two different venues of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club at Wimbledon: The original Worple Road venue (now used by Wimbledon High School) was used for the 1908 Summer Olympics; the current Church Road venue, opened in 1922, was used for the 2012 Summer Olympics. (Each venue was also used that year for the Wimbledon Championships.)

GamesVenueSurfaceCapacityRef.
1896 Athens Athens Lawn Tennis Club,
Neo Phaliron Velodrome 		Clay [1] Not listed
7,000		 [2]
[3] [4]
1900 Paris Cercle de Puteaux ClayNot listed [5] [4]
1904 St. Louis Francis Field [6] ClayNot listed [7] [4]
1908 London All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club [8] GrassNot listed [9] [10] [4]
1912 Stockholm Östermalm Athletic Grounds [11] ClayNot listed [12] [4]
1920 Antwerp Beerschot Tennis Club GrassNot listed [13] [4]
1924 Paris Stade de Tennis de Colombes ClayNot listed [14] [4]
1988 Seoul Olympic Tennis Center Hard15,000 (main court)
3,500
900		 [15] [4]
1992 Barcelona Tennis de la Vall d'Hebron Clay8,000 (main court) [16] [4]
1996 Atlanta Stone Mountain Tennis Center Hard12,000 (main court)
27,500 (all courts)		 [17] [18] [4]
2000 Sydney NSW Tennis Centre Hard10,000 (main court) [19] [4]
2004 Athens Athens Olympic Tennis Centre Hard [20] 8,600 (main court)
4,300
200
15,000 (all courts)		 [21] [4]
2008 Beijing Olympic Green Tennis Center Hard15,000 (main court)
10,000
4,000
2,000
200
32,400 (all courts)		 [22] [4]
2012 London All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club [23] Grass14,979 (main court)
30,000 (all courts)		 [24] [4]
2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Tennis Centre Hard [25] 10,000 (main court)
5,000
3,000
250		 [26]
2020 Tokyo Ariake Tennis Park (Ariake Coliseum)Hard10,000 (main court)
5,000
3,000
2,000
250
20,000 (all courts)
2024 Paris Stade Roland Garros Clay15,000 (main court)
10,000
5,000
2,000
250
34,000 (all courts)
2028 Los Angeles Dignity Health Sports Park Tennis Stadium Hard10,000 (main court)
2032 Brisbane Queensland Tennis Centre Hard5,500 (main court)
4,000
2,400
1,600

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Six tennis events were contested at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom. Indoor tennis events, on what were officially called 'covered courts', were held for the first time, along with the usual outdoor events. Women's events were contested, with women's singles and indoor women's singles. The indoor events were held at the covered courts of the Queen's Club and began on 6 May 1908, ahead of the official start of the Games while the outdoor tournament was played on grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club at Worple Road from 6 July through 11 July 1908. In total 50 players, 40 men and 10 women, competed. Five nations made their tennis debuts, while five more returned to competition for a total of ten nations. Two players, Les Poidevin and Wimbledon champion Anthony Wilding were nominated for Australasia but through administrative bungling they were not entered.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club</span> Private members club in Wimbledon, England

The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC), also known as the All England Club, based at Church Road, Wimbledon, London, England, is a private members' club. It is best known as the venue for the Wimbledon Championships, the only Grand Slam tennis event still held on grass. Initially an amateur event that occupied club members and their friends for a few days each summer, the championships have become far more prominent than the club itself.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">1877 Wimbledon Championship</span> First staging of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships

The 1877 Wimbledon Championship was a men's tennis tournament held at the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon, London. It was the world's first official lawn tennis tournament, and was later recognised as the first Grand Slam tournament or "Major". The AEC & LTC had been founded in July 1868, as the All England Croquet Club. Lawn tennis was introduced in February 1875 to compensate for the waning interest in croquet. In June 1877 the club decided to organise a tennis tournament to pay for the repair of its pony roller, needed to maintain the lawns. A set of rules was drawn up for the tournament, derived from the first standardised rules of tennis issued by the Marylebone Cricket Club in May 1875.

References

  1. ↑ Grivas, Nikolaos. "The First Olympic Tennis Event: Organization, Conduct, Essence" (PDF). Library la84. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-07-26.
  2. ↑ History of the Athens Lawn Tennis Club. Archived 2010-09-29 at the Wayback Machine (in English and Greek) - accessed 3 October 2010.
  3. ↑ "Cycling at the 1896 Athina Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2015-07-26.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 "Olympic Tennis Event - past venues". ITF. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
  5. ↑ Sports-reference.com Summer Olympics Paris 6-11 July 1900 tennis men's singles results. Accessed 14 November 2010.
  6. ↑ Courts outside the stadium
  7. ↑ Spalding's report of the 1904 Summer Olympics. Archived 2011-08-29 at the Wayback Machine pp. 222-9, 233-47. Accessed 4 October 2010.
  8. ↑ Worple Road
  9. ↑ 1908 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine p. 209. Accessed 28 April 2011.
  10. ↑ 1908 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine p. 220. Accessed 28 April 2011.
  11. ↑ Stockholm's Östermalm Athletic Grounds was also the venue for other Olympic games competition besides tennis, namely Equestrian, Fencing and Modern pentathlon (fencing)
  12. ↑ 1912 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-04-10 at the Wayback Machine pp. 218–20. Accessed 5 October 2010.
  13. ↑ Sports-reference.com profile of Tennis at the 1920 Summer Olympics.
  14. ↑ 1924 Olympics official report. Archived 2008-04-10 at the Wayback Machine pp. 374-397. (in French)
  15. ↑ 1988 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-11-18 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. Part 1. p. 180. Accessed 1 December 2010.
  16. ↑ 1992 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-05-28 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. pp. 246-9. Accessed 6 December 2010.
  17. ↑ 1996 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-05-28 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. p. 544. Accessed 9 December 2010.
  18. ↑ 1996 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine Volume 3. pp. 448, 453. Accessed 9 September 2010.
  19. ↑ 2000 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2000-11-09 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. p. 375. Accessed 16 December 2010.
  20. ↑ DecoTurf
  21. ↑ 2004 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-08-19 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. p. 409. Accessed 22 December 2010.
  22. ↑ "Beijing Olympic Green Tennis Court". Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. Archived from the original on 2008-08-09. Retrieved 2008-08-10.
  23. ↑ Church Road
  24. ↑ London2012.com profile of Wimbledon (All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. Archived 2010-09-16 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 30 December 2010.
  25. ↑ "Barra Olympic Park". International Tennis Federation. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
  26. ↑ "Olympic Tennis Center", Rio de Janeiro 2016 Candidate File (PDF), vol. 2, (BOC), February 16, 2009, pp. 50–51, archived from the original (PDF) on May 23, 2013, retrieved December 2, 2009.
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