Since tennis returned as an official Olympic sport at the 1988 Seoul Games, several players have etched their names in history with impressive medal hauls.
The Paris 2024 Games, which begins this weekend, includes the 10th Olympic Tennis Event since that 1988 return and will be staged on clay at Roland Garros.
In the nine summer games prior to this one, we’ve seen a number of tennis stars boost their career CVs with Olympics success.
Seoul 1988 was where Steffi Graf won singles gold, after sweeping all four major titles, to complete an unprecedented Golden Grand Slam.
At Sydney 2000, Venus Williams became the first tennis player to capture both singles and doubles gold medals at the same Games. This was a feat replicated by Nicolas Massu at Athens 2004, and Serena Williams at London 2012.
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Venus and Serena are unique Olympic icons. They are the only pair to win three women’s doubles gold medals – the most in a single Olympic tennis event – and they’ve also won a record four gold medals each, given their singles triumphs in 2000 and 2012 respectively.
Thanks to Venus’ mixed doubles silver medal at Rio 2016, she is the only player since 1988 to win five Olympic medals.
At that same Rio 2016 Games, Andy Murray became the first player to win back-to-back singles gold medals, following his London 2012 triumph. He remains the only player to have won two singles gold medals since 1988.
Rafael Nadal’s doubles triumph alongside Marc Lopez at Rio 2016 meant he became the only other man (matching Massu) to win gold medals in both singles and doubles, although Nadal’s singles gold came eight years earlier, in Beijing.
In partnership with Stats Perform, we bring you the best Olympic singles achievements since tennis returned to the Summer Games in 1988.
Singles medal table
(only players with multiple medals since 1988)
Most match wins
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Best winning percentage
Most singles matches played
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