The nine-person Australian tennis crew 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 August.
Paris, France, 22 July 2024 | Harriet RendleOlympic Tennis occasion can 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 start on the primary day of play. The blended doubles will start 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 probably the most profitable Australian gamers on the Olympics, profitable 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 blended doubles.
