List of Olympic venues in tennis
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.)
Games | Venue | Surface | Capacity | Ref. |
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1896 Athens | Athens Lawn Tennis Club, Neo Phaliron Velodrome | Clay[1] | Not listed 7,000 | [2] [3][4] |
1900 Paris | Cercle de Puteaux | Clay | Not listed | [5][4] |
1904 St. Louis | Francis Field[6] | Clay | Not listed | [7][4] |
1908 London | All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club[8] | Grass | Not listed | [9][10][4] |
1912 Stockholm | Östermalm Athletic Grounds[11] | Clay | Not listed | [12][4] |
1920 Antwerp | Beerschot Tennis Club | Grass | Not listed | [13][4] |
1924 Paris | Stade de Tennis de Colombes | Clay | Not listed | [14][4] |
1988 Seoul | Olympic Tennis Center | Hard | 15,000 (main court) 3,500 900 | [15][4] |
1992 Barcelona | Tennis de la Vall d'Hebron | Clay | 8,000 (main court) | [16][4] |
1996 Atlanta | Stone Mountain Tennis Center | Hard | 12,000 (main court) 27,500 (all courts) | [17][18][4] |
2000 Sydney | NSW Tennis Centre | Hard | 10,000 (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 | Hard | 15,000 (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] | Grass | 14,979 (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 Forest Park | Hard | 10,000 (main court) 5,000 3,000 2,000 250 20,000 (all courts) | |
2024 Paris | Stade Roland Garros | Clay | 15,000 (main court) 10,000 5,000 2,000 250 34,000 (all courts) | |
2028 Los Angeles | Dignity Health Sports Park Tennis Stadium | Hard | 10,000 (main court) | |
2032 Brisbane | Queensland Tennis Centre | Hard | 5,500 (main court) 4,000 2,400 1,600 |
Gallery
- The Athens Olympic Tennis Centre hosted tennis matches for the 2004 Summer Olympics.
- Olympic Green Tennis Center venue of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
- The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club at Wimbledon venue of the 2012 Summer Olympics.
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ History of the Athens Lawn Tennis Club. Archived 2010-09-29 at the Wayback Machine (in English and Greek) - accessed 3 October 2010.
- ^ "Cycling at the 1896 Athina Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2015-07-26.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Olympic Tennis Event - past venues". ITF. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
- ^ Sports-reference.com Summer Olympics Paris 6-11 July 1900 tennis men's singles results. Accessed 14 November 2010.
- ^ Courts outside the stadium
- ^ 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.
- ^ Worple Road
- ^ 1908 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine p. 209. Accessed 28 April 2011.
- ^ 1908 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine p. 220. Accessed 28 April 2011.
- ^ Stockholm's Östermalm Athletic Grounds was also the venue for other Olympic games competition besides tennis, namely Equestrian, Fencing and Modern pentathlon (fencing)
- ^ 1912 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-04-10 at the Wayback Machine pp. 218–20. Accessed 5 October 2010.
- ^ Sports-reference.com profile of Tennis at the 1920 Summer Olympics.
- ^ 1924 Olympics official report. Archived 2008-04-10 at the Wayback Machine pp. 374-397. (in French)
- ^ 1988 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-11-18 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. Part 1. p. 180. Accessed 1 December 2010.
- ^ 1992 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-05-28 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. pp. 246-9. Accessed 6 December 2010.
- ^ 1996 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-05-28 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. p. 544. Accessed 9 December 2010.
- ^ 1996 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine Volume 3. pp. 448, 453. Accessed 9 September 2010.
- ^ 2000 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2000-11-09 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. p. 375. Accessed 16 December 2010.
- ^ DecoTurf
- ^ 2004 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-08-19 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. p. 409. Accessed 22 December 2010.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Church Road
- ^ London2012.com profile of Wimbledon (All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. Archived 2010-09-16 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 30 December 2010.
- ^ "Barra Olympic Park". International Tennis Federation. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
- ^ "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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Olympic venues in tennis
- 1900: Puteaux
- 1904: Francis Olympic Field
- 1908: All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Queen's Club
- 1912: Östermalms IP
- 1920: Beerschot Tennis Club
- 1924: Stade Yves-du-Manoir
- 1984: Los Angeles Tennis Center
- 1988: Olympic Tennis Center
- 1992: Tennis de la Vall d'Hebron
- 1996: Stone Mountain Tennis Center
- 2000: NSW Tennis Centre
- 2004: Athens Olympic Tennis Centre (The Main Court)
- 2008: Olympic Green Tennis Center
- 2012: All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club
- 2016: Olympic Tennis Centre
- 2020: Ariake Tennis Forest Park
- 2024: Stade Roland Garros
- 2028: Dignity Health Sports Park
- 2032: Queensland Tennis Centre