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List of Olympic medalists in tennis

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Reginald Doherty, four-time Olympic medalist
Venus Williams, five-time Olympic medalist

Tennis was first contested as a Summer Olympic sport in the 1896 Olympic Games until 1924 (excluding 1916 due to World War I), before going on hiatus due to disputes between the International Lawn Tennis Federation and the International Olympic Committee over how to define amateur players.[1][2] After two appearances as a demonstration sport in 1968 and 1984 (with a U-21 age limit),[3] it was reinstated as a full medal sport in 1988.[4]

Kathleen McKane Godfree (one gold, two silvers, and two bronzes) and Venus Williams (four gold, one silver) are tied as the record holders for the most Olympic medals in tennis. Serena Williams and Venus Williams won a record four gold medals. Reginald Doherty is the record holder for most medals in men's tennis (three gold and one bronze). Andy Murray is the only men's player to have won two singles gold medals.

Only on three occasions has a player defended their gold medal: Gigi Fernández and Mary Joe Fernández in women's doubles in 1992 and 1996, Serena Williams and Venus Williams in women's doubles in 2008 and 2012, and Andy Murray in the men's singles in 2012 and 2016.

Olympic medalists

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Amateur Era

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1896

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles John Boland
 Great Britain
Dionysios Kasdaglis
 Greece
Konstantinos Paspatis
 Greece
Momčilo Tapavica
 Hungary
Men's doubles  Mixed team (ZZX)
 John Boland (GBR)
 Friedrich Traun (GER)
 Greece (GRE)
Demetrios Petrokokkinos
Dionysios Kasdaglis
 Mixed team (ZZX)
 Edwin Flack (AUS)
 George Robertson (GBR)

1900

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles  Laurence Doherty (GBR)  Harold Mahony (GBR)  Reginald Doherty (GBR)
 Arthur Norris (GBR)
Men's doubles  Great Britain (GBR)
Laurence Doherty
Reginald Doherty
 Mixed team (ZZX)
 Max Decugis (FRA)
 Basil Spalding de Garmendia (USA)
 France (FRA)
Guy de la Chapelle
André Prévost
 Great Britain (GBR)
Harold Mahony
Arthur Norris
Women's singles  Charlotte Cooper (GBR)  Hélène Prévost (FRA)  Marion Jones Farquhar (USA)
 Hedwiga Rosenbaumová (BOH)
Mixed doubles  Great Britain (GBR)
Charlotte Cooper
Reginald Doherty
 Mixed team (ZZX)
 Hélène Prévost (FRA)
 Harold Mahony (GBR)
 Mixed team (ZZX)
 Marion Jones Farquhar (USA)
 Laurence Doherty (GBR)
 Mixed team (ZZX)
 Hedwiga Rosenbaumová (BOH)
 Archibald Warden (GBR)

1904

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles  Beals Wright (USA)  Robert LeRoy (USA)  Alphonzo Bell (USA)
 Edgar Leonard (USA)
Men's doubles  United States (USA)
Beals Wright
Edgar Leonard
 United States (USA)
Robert LeRoy
Alphonzo Bell
 United States (USA)
Clarence Gamble
Arthur Wear
 United States (USA)
Joseph Wear
Allen West

1908

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Outdoor
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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's outdoor singles Major Ritchie
 Great Britain
Otto Froitzheim
 Germany
Wilberforce Eaves
 Great Britain
Men's outdoor doubles  Great Britain (GBR)
Reginald Doherty
George Hillyard
 Great Britain (GBR)
James Cecil Parke
Major Ritchie
 Great Britain (GBR)
Clement Cazalet
Charles Dixon
Women's outdoor singles Dorothea Lambert Chambers
 Great Britain
Dora Boothby
 Great Britain
Ruth Winch
 Great Britain
Indoor
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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's indoor singles Arthur Gore
 Great Britain
George Caridia
 Great Britain
Major Ritchie
 Great Britain
Men's indoor doubles  Great Britain (GBR)
Herbert Roper Barrett
Arthur Gore
 Great Britain (GBR)
George Caridia
George Simond
 Sweden (SWE)
Wollmar Boström
Gunnar Setterwall
Women's indoor singles Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith
 Great Britain
Alice Greene
 Great Britain
Märtha Adlerstråhle
 Sweden

1912

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Outdoor
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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's outdoor singles Charles Winslow
 South Africa
Harold Kitson
 South Africa
Oscar Kreuzer
 Germany
Men's outdoor doubles  South Africa (RSA)
Harold Kitson
Charles Winslow
 Austria (AUT)
Felix Pipes
Arthur Zborzil
 France (FRA)
Albert Canet
Édouard Mény de Marangue
Women's outdoor singles Marguerite Broquedis
 France
Dorothea Köring
 Germany
Molla Mallory
 Norway
Mixed outdoor doubles  Germany (GER)
Dorothea Köring
Heinrich Schomburgk
 Sweden (SWE)
Sigrid Fick
Gunnar Setterwall
 France (FRA)
Marguerite Broquedis
Albert Canet
Indoor
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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's indoor singles André Gobert
 France
Charles Dixon
 Great Britain
Anthony Wilding
 Australasia
Men's indoor doubles  France (FRA)
Maurice Germot
André Gobert
 Sweden (SWE)
Carl Kempe
Gunnar Setterwall
 Great Britain (GBR)
Alfred Beamish
Charles Dixon
Women's indoor singles Edith Hannam
 Great Britain
Sofie Castenschiold
 Denmark
Mabel Parton
 Great Britain
Mixed indoor doubles  Great Britain (GBR)
Edith Hannam
Charles Dixon
 Great Britain (GBR)
Helen Aitchison
Herbert Roper Barrett
 Sweden (SWE)
Sigrid Fick
Gunnar Setterwall

1920

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles Louis Raymond
 South Africa
Ichiya Kumagae
 Japan
Charles Winslow
 South Africa
Men's doubles  Great Britain (GBR)
Noel Turnbull
Max Woosnam
 Japan (JPN)
Seiichiro Kashio
Ichiya Kumagae
 France (FRA)
Pierre Albarran
Max Decugis
Women's singles Suzanne Lenglen
 France
Dorothy Holman
 Great Britain
Kathleen McKane
 Great Britain
Women's doubles  Great Britain (GBR)
Kathleen McKane
Winifred McNair
 Great Britain (GBR)
Winifred Beamish
Dorothy Holman
 France (FRA)
Élisabeth d'Ayen
Suzanne Lenglen
Mixed doubles  France (FRA)
Suzanne Lenglen
Max Decugis
 Great Britain (GBR)
Kathleen McKane
Max Woosnam
 Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Milada Skrbková
Ladislav Žemla

1924

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles Vincent Richards
 United States
Henri Cochet
 France
Uberto De Morpurgo
 Italy
Men's doubles  United States (USA)
Vincent Richards
Francis Hunter
 France (FRA)
Jacques Brugnon
Henri Cochet
 France (FRA)
Jean Borotra
René Lacoste
Women's singles Helen Wills
 United States
Julie Vlasto
 France
Kathleen McKane
 Great Britain
Women's doubles  United States (USA)
Hazel Wightman
Helen Wills
 Great Britain (GBR)
Phyllis Covell
Kathleen McKane
 Great Britain (GBR)
Evelyn Colyer
Dorothy Shepherd-Barron
Mixed doubles  United States (USA)
Hazel Wightman
R. Norris Williams
 United States (USA)
Marion Jessup
Vincent Richards
 Netherlands (NED)
Kea Bouman
Hendrik Timmer

Open Era

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1988

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles Miloslav Mečíř
 Czechoslovakia
Tim Mayotte
 United States
Stefan Edberg
 Sweden
Brad Gilbert
 United States
Men's doubles  United States (USA)
Ken Flach
Robert Seguso
 Spain (ESP)
Emilio Sánchez
Sergio Casal
 Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Miloslav Mečíř
Milan Šrejber
 Sweden (SWE)
Stefan Edberg
Anders Järryd
Women's singles Steffi Graf
 West Germany
Gabriela Sabatini
 Argentina
Zina Garrison
 United States
Manuela Maleeva-Fragnière
 Bulgaria
Women's doubles  United States (USA)
Pam Shriver
Zina Garrison
 Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Jana Novotná
Helena Suková
 Australia (AUS)
Elizabeth Smylie
Wendy Turnbull
 West Germany (FRG)
Steffi Graf
Claudia Kohde-Kilsch

1992

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles Marc Rosset
 Switzerland
Jordi Arrese
 Spain
Goran Ivanišević
 Croatia
Andrei Cherkasov
 Unified Team
( Russia)
Men's doubles  Germany (GER)
Boris Becker
Michael Stich
 South Africa (RSA)
Wayne Ferreira
Piet Norval
 Croatia (CRO)
Goran Ivanišević
Goran Prpić
 Argentina (ARG)
Javier Frana
Christian Miniussi
Women's singles Jennifer Capriati
 United States
Steffi Graf
 Germany
Mary Joe Fernández
 United States
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
 Spain
Women's doubles  United States (USA)
Gigi Fernández
Mary Joe Fernández
 Spain (ESP)
Conchita Martínez
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
 Unified Team (EUN)
Leila Meskhi
Natasha Zvereva
 Australia (AUS)
Nicole Bradtke
Rachel McQuillan

1996

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles Andre Agassi
 United States
Sergi Bruguera
 Spain
Leander Paes
 India
Men's doubles  Australia (AUS)
Todd Woodbridge
Mark Woodforde
 Great Britain (GBR)
Neil Broad
Tim Henman
 Germany (GER)
Marc-Kevin Goellner
David Prinosil
Women's singles Lindsay Davenport
 United States
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
 Spain
Jana Novotná
 Czech Republic
Women's doubles  United States (USA)
Gigi Fernández
Mary Joe Fernández
 Czech Republic (CZE)
Jana Novotná
Helena Suková
 Spain (ESP)
Conchita Martínez
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario

2000

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles Yevgeny Kafelnikov
 Russia
Tommy Haas
 Germany
Arnaud Di Pasquale
 France
Men's doubles  Canada (CAN)
Sébastien Lareau
Daniel Nestor
 Australia (AUS)
Todd Woodbridge
Mark Woodforde
 Spain (ESP)
Àlex Corretja
Albert Costa
Women's singles Venus Williams
 United States
Elena Dementieva
 Russia
Monica Seles
 United States
Women's doubles  United States (USA)
Venus Williams
Serena Williams
 Netherlands (NED)
Kristie Boogert
Miriam Oremans
 Belgium (BEL)
Els Callens
Dominique van Roost

2004

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles Nicolás Massú
 Chile
Mardy Fish
 United States
Fernando González
 Chile
Men's doubles  Chile (CHI)
Fernando González
Nicolás Massú
 Germany (GER)
Nicolas Kiefer
Rainer Schüttler
 Croatia (CRO)
Mario Ančić
Ivan Ljubičić
Women's singles Justine Henin-Hardenne
 Belgium
Amélie Mauresmo
 France
Alicia Molik
 Australia
Women's doubles  China (CHN)
Li Ting
Sun Tiantian
 Spain (ESP)
Conchita Martínez
Virginia Ruano Pascual
 Argentina (ARG)
Paola Suárez
Patricia Tarabini

2008

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles Rafael Nadal
 Spain
Fernando González
 Chile
Novak Djokovic
 Serbia
Men's doubles  Switzerland (SUI)
Roger Federer
Stanislas Wawrinka
 Sweden (SWE)
Simon Aspelin
Thomas Johansson
 United States (USA)
Bob Bryan
Mike Bryan
Women's singles Elena Dementieva
 Russia
Dinara Safina
 Russia
Vera Zvonareva
 Russia
Women's doubles  United States (USA)
Serena Williams
Venus Williams
 Spain (ESP)
Anabel Medina Garrigues
Virginia Ruano Pascual
 China (CHN)
Yan Zi
Zheng Jie

2012

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles Andy Murray
 Great Britain
Roger Federer
 Switzerland
Juan Martín del Potro
 Argentina
Men's doubles  United States (USA)
Bob Bryan
Mike Bryan
 France (FRA)
Michaël Llodra
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
 France (FRA)
Julien Benneteau
Richard Gasquet
Women's singles Serena Williams
 United States
Maria Sharapova
 Russia
Victoria Azarenka
 Belarus
Women's doubles  United States (USA)
Serena Williams
Venus Williams
 Czech Republic (CZE)
Andrea Hlaváčková
Lucie Hradecká
 Russia (RUS)
Maria Kirilenko
Nadia Petrova
Mixed doubles  Belarus (BLR)
Victoria Azarenka
Max Mirnyi
 Great Britain (GBR)
Laura Robson
Andy Murray
 United States (USA)
Lisa Raymond
Mike Bryan

2016

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles Andy Murray
 Great Britain
Juan Martín del Potro
 Argentina
Kei Nishikori
 Japan
Men's doubles  Spain (ESP)
Marc López
Rafael Nadal
 Romania (ROU)
Florin Mergea
Horia Tecău
 United States (USA)
Steve Johnson
Jack Sock
Women's singles Monica Puig
 Puerto Rico
Angelique Kerber
 Germany
Petra Kvitová
 Czech Republic
Women's doubles  Russia (RUS)
Ekaterina Makarova
Elena Vesnina
 Switzerland (SUI)
Timea Bacsinszky
Martina Hingis
 Czech Republic (CZE)
Lucie Šafářová
Barbora Strýcová
Mixed doubles  United States (USA)
Bethanie Mattek-Sands
Jack Sock
 United States (USA)
Venus Williams
Rajeev Ram
 Czech Republic (CZE)
Lucie Hradecká
Radek Štěpánek

2020

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles Alexander Zverev
 Germany
Karen Khachanov
 ROC
Pablo Carreño Busta
 Spain
Men's doubles  Croatia (CRO)
Nikola Mektić
Mate Pavić
 Croatia (CRO)
Marin Čilić
Ivan Dodig
 New Zealand (NZL)
Marcus Daniell
Michael Venus
Women's singles Belinda Bencic
 Switzerland
Markéta Vondroušová
 Czech Republic
Elina Svitolina
 Ukraine
Women's doubles  Czech Republic (CZE)
Barbora Krejčíková
Kateřina Siniaková
 Switzerland (SUI)
Belinda Bencic
Viktorija Golubic
 Brazil (BRA)
Laura Pigossi
Luisa Stefani
Mixed doubles  ROC (ROC)
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
Andrey Rublev
 ROC (ROC)
Elena Vesnina
Aslan Karatsev
 Australia (AUS)
Ashleigh Barty
John Peers

2024

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles Novak Djokovic
 Serbia
Carlos Alcaraz
 Spain
Lorenzo Musetti
 Italy
Men's doubles  Australia
Matthew Ebden
John Peers
 United States
Austin Krajicek
Rajeev Ram
 United States
Taylor Fritz
Tommy Paul
Women's singles Zheng Qinwen
 China
Donna Vekić
 Croatia
Iga Świątek
 Poland
Women's doubles  Italy
Sara Errani
Jasmine Paolini
 Individual Neutral Athletes
Mirra Andreeva
Diana Shnaider
 Spain
Cristina Bucșa
Sara Sorribes Tormo
Mixed doubles  Czech Republic
Kateřina Siniaková
Tomáš Macháč
 China
Wang Xinyu
Zhang Zhizhen
 Canada
Gabriela Dabrowski
Félix Auger-Aliassime

Athlete medal leaders

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Players currently active in bold.

Men leaders

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Rank Athlete Nation Olympics Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Reginald Doherty  Great Britain 1900–1908 3 0 1 4
2 Vincent Richards  United States 1924 2 1 0 3
Andy Murray  Great Britain 2008–2024 2 1 0
4 Laurence Doherty  Great Britain 1900 2 0 1 3
Charles Winslow  South Africa 1912–1920 2 0 1
6 Nicolás Massú  Chile 2000–2008 2 0 0 2
Rafael Nadal  Spain 2004–2024 2 0 0
8 Charles Dixon  Great Britain 1908–1912 1 1 2 4
9 Max Décugis  France 1900–1920 1 1 1 3
Fernando González  Chile 2004–2008 1 1 1

Men's singles leaders

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 Multiple singles medalist.
# Gold medals
2 United Kingdom Andy Murray
1 United Kingdom John Boland
United Kingdom Laurence Doherty
United States Beals Wright
United Kingdom Josiah Ritchie
United States Charles Winslow
South Africa Louis Raymond
United States Vincent Richards
Czechoslovakia Miloslav Mečíř
Switzerland Marc Rosset
United States Andre Agassi
Russia Yevgeny Kafelnikov
Chile Nicolás Massú
Spain Rafael Nadal
Germany Alexander Zverev
Serbia Novak Djokovic
# Silver medals
1 Greece Dionysios Kasdaglis
United Kingdom Harold Mahony
United States Robert LeRoy
Germany Otto Froitzheim
South Africa Harold Kitson
Japan Ichiya Kumagae
France Henri Cochet
United States Tim Mayotte
Spain Jordi Arrese
Spain Sergi Bruguera
Germany Tommy Haas
United States Mardy Fish
Chile Fernando Gonzalez
Switzerland Roger Federer
Argentina Juan Martin Del Potro
Russia Karen Khachanov
Spain Carlos Alcaraz
# Bronze medals
1 Hungary Momčilo Tapavica
Greece Konstantinos Paspatis
United Kingdom Reginald Doherty
United Kingdom Arthur Norris
United States Alphonzo Bell
United States Edgar Leonard
United Kingdom Wilberforce Eaves
Germany Oscar Kreuzer
South Africa Charles Winslow
Italy Umberto De Morpurgo
Sweden Stefan Edberg
United States Brad Gilbert
Soviet Union Andrei Cherkasov
Croatia Goran Ivanišević
India Leander Paes
France Arnaud Di Pasquale
Chile Fernando González
Serbia Novak Djokovic
Argentina Juan Martin Del Potro
Japan Kei Nishikori
Spain Pablo Carreño Busta
Italy Lorenzo Musetti

Women leaders

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Rank Athlete Nation Olympics Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Venus Williams  United States 2000–2016 4 1 0 5
2 Serena Williams  United States 2000–2016 4 0 0 4
3 Kateřina Siniaková  Czech Republic 2020–2024 2 0 0 2
4 Kathleen McKane Godfree  Great Britain 1920–1924 1 2 2 5
5 Belinda Bencic  Switzerland 2020 1 1 0 2
6 Arantxa Sánchez Vicario  Spain 1992–1996 0 2 2 4
7 Conchita Martínez  Spain 1992–2004 0 2 1 3

Women's singles leaders

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 Multiple singles medalist.
# Gold medals
1 United Kingdom Charlotte Cooper
United Kingdom Dorothea Douglass
France Marguerite Broquedis
France Suzanne Lenglen
United States Helen Wills
Germany Steffi Graf
United States Jennifer Capriati
United States Lindsay Davenport
United States Venus Williams
Belgium Justine Henin-Hardenne
Russia Elena Dementieva
United States Serena Williams
Puerto Rico Monica Puig
Switzerland Belinda Bencic
China Zheng Qinwen
# Silver medals
1 France Hélène Prévost
United Kingdom Dora Boothby
Germany Dorothea Köring
United Kingdom Dorothy Holman
France Julie Vlasto
Argentina Gabriela Sabatini
Germany Steffi Graf
Spain Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
Russia Elena Dementieva
France Amélie Mauresmo
Russia Dinara Safina
Russia Maria Sharapova
Germany Angelique Kerber
Czech Republic Markéta Vondroušová
Croatia Donna Vekić
# Bronze medals
2 United Kingdom Kitty McKane
1 United States Marion Jones
Bohemia Hedwiga Rosenbaumová
United Kingdom Ruth Winch
Norway Molla Bjurstedt
United States Zina Garrison
Bulgaria Manuela Maleeva
United States Mary Joe Fernández
Spain Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
Czech Republic Jana Novotná
United States Monica Seles
Australia Alicia Molik
Russia Vera Zvonareva
Belarus Victoria Azarenka
Czech Republic Petra Kvitová
Ukraine Elina Svitolina
Poland Iga Świątek

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States (USA)2161239
2 Great Britain (GBR)17141243
3 France (FRA)56819
4 Germany (GER)36211
5 Russia (RUS)3328
6 Switzerland (SUI)3306
7 South Africa (RSA)3216
8 Spain (ESP)27413
9 Czech Republic (CZE)2349
10 Chile (CHI)2114
 China (CHN)2114
12 Mixed team (ZZX)1236
13 ROC (ROC)1203
14 Australia (AUS)1146
15 Croatia (CRO)1135
16 Czechoslovakia (TCH)1124
17 Belarus (BLR)1012
 Belgium (BEL)1012
 Canada (CAN)1012
 Serbia (SRB)1012
 West Germany (FRG)1012
22 Puerto Rico (PUR)1001
23 Sweden (SWE)0358
24 Argentina (ARG)0246
25 Greece (GRE)0213
 Japan (JPN)0213
27 Netherlands (NED)0112
28 Austria (AUT)0101
 Denmark (DEN)0101
 Romania (ROM)0101
31 Unified Team (EUN)0022
32 Australasia (ANZ)0011
 Bohemia (BOH)0011
 Brazil (BRA)0011
 Bulgaria (BUL)0011
 Hungary (HUN)0011
 India (IND)0011
 Italy (ITA)0011
 Norway (NOR)0011
 Poland (POL)0011
 Ukraine (UKR)0011
Totals (41 entries)747288234

See also

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Notes

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^a The Olympic medal table is ranked first by the number of gold medals won and then by silver and bronze medals if there is a tie.

References

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  1. ^ Soltis, Greg (July 27, 2012). "Olympic Events Through History". LiveScience. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
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  3. ^ "Olympic Tennis Event – History: Overview". International Tennis Federation. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
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