Italy's Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini defeated the Individual Neutral Athletes' Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnaider in the final, 2–6, 6–1, [10–7] to win the gold medal in women's doubles tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics.[1] It was Italy's first Olympic gold medal in tennis, and Errani completed the career Golden Slam (becoming the seventh woman to do so, after the Williams sisters, Pam Shriver, Gigi Fernández, Barbora Krejčíková, and Kateřina Siniaková) and became the oldest player to win an Olympic tennis gold.[2] In the bronze medal match, Spain's Cristina Bucșa and Sara Sorribes Tormo defeated Czechia's Karolína Muchová and Linda Nosková, 6–2, 6–2. It was Spain's first Olympic medal in women's tennis since 2008.[3]
| Women's doubles at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Stade Roland Garros | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 27 July – 4 August | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 64 from 21 nations | ||||||||||||
| Teams | 32 | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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| Tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics | |
| Champions |  Sara Errani Jasmine Paolini |
| Runners-up |  Mirra Andreeva Diana Shnaider |
| Score | 2–6, 6–1, [10–7] |
The women's doubles tennis event at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place from 27 July to 4 August 2024 at the Stade Roland Garros, in Paris, France.[4] There were 64 players (32 teams) from 21 nations.[5]
Krejčíková and Siniaková were the defending champions from 2020, but lost in the quarterfinals to Andreeva and Shnaider.[6] Andreeva went on to become the second youngest player to win an Olympic tennis medal at the age of 17 years, 3 months and 6 days (after Jennifer Capriati, who won Olympic gold at the women's singles event in 1992 at the age of 16 years and 132 days).[2]
Qualification
editEach National Olympic Committee (NOC) can enter up to two teams. Qualification for the women's doubles is primarily through the WTA ranking list. There are 32 quota places available for women's doubles.[5]
Competition format
editThe competition was a single-elimination tournament with a bronze medal match. Matches are best-of-3 sets. A tiebreak was played in the first two sets reaching 6–6, while the third set was be a single tiebreak until one team scores ten points, while being two points clear.[7]
Schedule
editThe schedule was as follows.[8]
| R64 | Round of 64 | R32 | Round of 32 | R16 | Round of 16 | QF | Quarter-finals | SF | Semi-finals | BM | Bronze medal match | F | Final |
| Sat 27 | Sun 28 | Mon 29 | Tue 30 | Wed 31 | Thu 1 | Fri 2 | Sat 3 | Sun 4 | ||
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| R32 | R16 | ¼ | ½ | BM | F | |||||
Seeds
editThe seeds were released on 23 July 2024.[9]
- 1.
Coco Gauff (USA) / Jessica Pegula (USA) (second round) - 2.
Barbora Krejčíková (CZE) / Kateřina Siniaková (CZE) (quarterfinals) - 3.
Sara Errani (ITA) / Jasmine Paolini (ITA) (champions, gold medalists) - 4. Danielle Collins (USA) / Desirae Krawczyk (USA) (second round)
- 5.
Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN) / Leylah Fernandez (CAN) (second round) - 6.
Beatriz Haddad Maia (BRA) / Luisa Stefani (BRA) (second round) - 7.
Marta Kostyuk (UKR) / Dayana Yastremska (UKR) (second round, withdrew) - 8.
Cristina Bucșa (ESP) / Sara Sorribes Tormo (ESP) (semifinals, bronze medalists)
Draw
editThe draw was held on 25 July 2024.[10][11]
Key
edit- 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
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Finals
edit| Semifinals | Gold medal match | ||||||||||||
 Karolína Muchová (CZE) Linda Nosková (CZE)
| 3 | 2 | |||||||||||
| 3 |  Sara Errani (ITA) Jasmine Paolini (ITA)
| 6 | 6 | ||||||||||
| 3 | Sara Errani (ITA) Jasmine Paolini (ITA)
| 2 | 6 | [10] | |||||||||
 Mirra Andreeva (AIN) Diana Shnaider (AIN)
| 6 | 1 | [7] | ||||||||||
| 8 |  Cristina Bucșa (ESP) Sara Sorribes Tormo (ESP)
| 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Mirra Andreeva (AIN) Diana Shnaider (AIN)
| 6 | 6 | Bronze medal match | ||||||||||
| Karolína Muchová (CZE) Linda Nosková (CZE)
| 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
| 8 | Cristina Bucșa (ESP) Sara Sorribes Tormo (ESP)
| 6 | 6 | ||||||||||
Top half
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Bottom half
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Gallery
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References
edit- ^ "Sara Errani, Jasmine Paolini win women's doubles gold medal for Italy at Paris Olympics". New York Times. Archived from the original on 4 August 2024.
- ^ a b "Tennis: Italy's Errani and Paolini win gold in women's doubles". Reuters. Archived from the original on 4 August 2024.
- ^ "Errani, Paolini prevail from a set down to claim Olympic doubles gold medal". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
- ^ "Roland Garros to host Paris 2024 tennis". Sports Business Journal. 8 August 2022. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
- ^ a b "Paris 2024 Olympic Tennis Event Qualification System" (PDF). ITF. 17 May 2022. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
- ^ "Russian tennis players Andreeva and Shnaider reach the semifinals as AIN athletes at the Olympics". AP News. 2 August 2024. Retrieved 3 August 2024.
- ^ "Tennis at the Olympics: Fixtures, results, teams, format and schedule at Paris 2024". skysports.com. 17 July 2024. Retrieved 17 July 2024.
- ^ "Tennis at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games". nbcolympics.com. 1 June 2022. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
- ^ "2024 Paris Olympics: These will be the top seeds in the doubles draws". Puntodebreak.com. 23 July 2024.
- ^ "Olympics Tennis 2024: Draws, Dates, History & All You Need To Know". ATP Tour. 24 July 2024. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
- ^ "Draws announced for the Paris 2024 Olympic Tennis Event". ATP Tour. 25 July 2024. Retrieved 25 July 2024.