Tennis at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Women's indoor singles
Tennis at the Olympics
Women's indoor singles tennis at the Games of the IV Olympiad | ||||||||||
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Venue | Queen's Club | |||||||||
Dates | 6–11 May 1908 | |||||||||
Competitors | 9 from 2 nations | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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1912 → |
Women's indoor singles | ||||||||||||||||||
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1908 tennis event results
The indoor women's singles was one of six lawn tennis events on the Tennis at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. Nations could enter up to 12 players.[1]
Draw
Key
- Q = Qualifier
- WC = Wild card
- LL = Lucky loser
- Alt = Alternate
- SE = Special exempt
- PR = Protected ranking
- ITF = ITF entry
- JE = Junior exempt
- w/o = Walkover
- r = Retired
- d = Defaulted
- SR = Special ranking
Draw
First round | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final (gold-medal match) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
D Lambert Chambers (GBR) | w/o | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
M Adlerstråhle (SWE) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
M Adlerstråhle (SWE) | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Greene (GBR) | 6 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
D Boothby (GBR) | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Greene (GBR) | A Greene (GBR) | 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
R Winch (GBR) | w/o | A Greene (GBR) | 2 | 6 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
G Eastlake-Smith (GBR) | 6 | 4 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
E Wallenberg (SWE) | 11 | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
M Coles (GBR)[2] | 9 | 6 | 5r | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
E Wallenberg (SWE) | 4 | 4 | Bronze-medal match | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
G Eastlake-Smith (GBR) | 6 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
G Eastlake-Smith (GBR) | 7 | 7 | E Wallenberg (SWE) | 6 | 2 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||
V Pinckney (GBR) | 5 | 5 | M Adlerstråhle (SWE) | 1 | 6 | 6 |
References
External links
- Cook, Theodore Andrea (May 1909). The Fourth Olympiad London 1908 Official Report (PDF). London: British Olympic Association. Retrieved 8 May 2008.
- ITF, 2008 Olympic Tennis Event Media Guide
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Olympic tennis women's singles champions
- 1968: Helga Niessen (FRG)
- 1984: Steffi Graf (FRG)
- 1908: Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith (GBR)
- 1912: Edith Hannam (GBR)
- 1900: Charlotte Cooper (GBR)
- 1908: Dorothea Chambers (GBR)
- 1912: Marguerite Broquedis (FRA)
- 1920: Suzanne Lenglen (FRA)
- 1924: Helen Wills (USA)
- 1988: Steffi Graf (FRG)
- 1992: Jennifer Capriati (USA)
- 1996: Lindsay Davenport (USA)
- 2000: Venus Williams (USA)
- 2004: Justine Henin-Hardenne (BEL)
- 2008: Elena Dementieva (RUS)
- 2012: Serena Williams (USA)
- 2016: Monica Puig (PUR)
- 2020: Belinda Bencic (SUI)
- 2024: Zheng Qinwen (CHN)