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Tennis At The 2024 Summer Olympics – Mixed Doubles
Czechia's Kateřina Siniaková and Tomáš Macháč defeated China's Wang Xinyu and Zhang Zhizhen in the final, 6–2, 5–7, 0–8to win the gold medal in mixed doubles tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics. It was Czechia's first Olympic medal in mixed doubles tennis, and Siniaková's second Olympic gold medal after winning the women's doubles event in 2021. In the bronze medal match, Canada's Gabriela Dabrowski and Félix Auger-Aliassime defeated Demi Schuurs and Wesley Koolhof of the Netherlands, 6–3, 7–6(7–2). It was Canada's second Olympic tennis medal. In the event, 32 players (16 teams) from 16 nations participated in the draw. Andrey Rublev and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova were the reigning gold medalists from 2021, but neither of them chose to compete in this edition of the Summer Games. Qualification Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) can enter up to one team. Qualification for the mixed doubles is primarily through the ATP and WTA ranking lists. There are 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Of Tennis Professionals
The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) is the governing body of the men's professional tennis circuits – the ATP Tour and the ATP Challenger Tour. It was formed in September 1972 by Donald Dell, Jack Kramer, and Cliff Drysdale to protect the interests of professional tennis players, and Drysdale became the first president. Since 1990 the association has organized the ATP Tour, the worldwide tennis tour for men and linked the title of the tour with the organization's name. It is the governing body of men's professional tennis. In 1990 the organization was called the ATP Tour, which was renamed in 2001 as just ATP and the tour being called ATP Tour. In 2009 the name of the tour was changed again and was known as the ATP World Tour, but changed again to the ATP Tour by 2019. It is an evolution of the tour competitions previously known as Grand Prix tennis tournaments and World Championship Tennis (WCT). The ATP's global headquarters are in London. ATP Americas is base ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Ebden
Matthew Ebden (born 26 November 1987) is an Australian professional tennis player who reached a career high of List of ATP number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 in doubles. Ebden is a three-time Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam champion, having won the 2022 Wimbledon Championships – Men's doubles, 2022 Wimbledon Championships and 2024 Australian Open – Men's doubles, 2024 Australian Open in doubles with Max Purcell and Rohan Bopanna respectively, and the 2013 Australian Open – Mixed doubles, 2013 Australian Open in mixed doubles alongside Jarmila Gajdošová. Ebden won an Olympic gold medal at the Tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics, 2024 Paris Olympics with John Peers. Ebden also finished runner-up at the 2022 Australian Open – Men's doubles, 2022 Australian Open and 2023 US Open – Men's doubles, 2023 US Open in men's doubles with Purcell and Bopanna respectively, and the 2021 Australian Open – Mixed doubles, 2021 Australian Open and 2022 Wimbledon Cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Perez
Ellen Perez (born 10 October 1995) is an Australian professional tennis player. Her career-high rankings in singles and doubles are world No. 162 and No. 7, achieved in August 2019 and in April 2024, respectively. She has won eight doubles titles on the WTA Tour, three doubles titles on the WTA 125 tournaments, Challenger Tour, as well as two singles and 19 doubles titles on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, ITF Circuit. Perez made her Grand Slam (tennis), major main-draw debut at the 2016 Australian Open in doubles with Belinda Woolcock; they lost in the first round to Jessica Moore (tennis), Jessica Moore and Storm Sanders. Perez made her first singles major appearance at the 2016 US Open (tennis), 2016 US Open, after winning the Australian Wildcard Play-off. Personal life Ellen is the daughter of John and Milića Perez. Ellen is of Spanish descent on her father's side and of Macedonian descent on her mother's side. She picked up a tennis racket at the age of three after rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Zverev
Alexander "Sascha" Zverev (; born 20 April 1997) is a German professional tennis player and the current world No. 3. He has won 24 ATP Tour titles in singles and two in doubles, and has been runner-up at three Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, majors. His career highlights include a gold medal at the Tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's singles, 2020 Tokyo Olympics and titles at the 2018 ATP Finals – Singles, 2018 and the 2021 ATP Finals – Singles, 2021 ATP Finals. Zverev is a former junior world No. 1, and won a junior major singles title at the 2014 Australian Open – Boys' singles, 2014 Australian Open. He had an early breakthrough on the professional tour as well, becoming one of the youngest ATP Challenger Tour, Challenger Tour title winners in history at the age of 17. As a teenager, Zverev won two ATP titles and upset then-world No. 3 Roger Federer on Grass court, grass. At 20 years old, he became the youngest player to debut in the top 20 since Novak Djokovic. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Siegemund
Laura Natalie Siegemund (born 4 March 1988) is a German professional tennis player. Siegemund reached her career-high doubles ranking of world No. 4 on 29 January 2024 and has won fourteen doubles titles on the WTA Tour. She is a three-time Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam champion, having won the 2020 US Open – Women's doubles, 2020 US Open in women's doubles with Vera Zvonareva, as well as the 2016 US Open – Mixed doubles, 2016 US Open and the 2024 French Open – Mixed doubles, 2024 French Open in mixed doubles, partnering Mate Pavić and Édouard Roger-Vasselin respectively. Alongside her major titles, she won the 2023 WTA Finals – Doubles, 2023 WTA Finals and the 2022 Miami Open – Women's doubles, 2022 Miami Open in doubles. In singles, her career-high ranking is world No. 27, achieved in August 2016, and she has won two WTA titles, at the 2016 Swedish Open – Women's singles, 2016 Swedish Open and 2017 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix – Singles, 2017 Stuttgart Open. Sieg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennis Scoring System
The tennis scoring system is a standard widespread method for scoring tennis matches, including pick-up games. Some tennis matches are played as part of a tournament, which may have various categories, such as singles and Doubles (tennis), doubles. The great majority are organised as a single-elimination tournament, with competitors being eliminated after a single loss, and the overall winner being the last competitor without a loss. Optimally, such tournaments have a number of competitors equal to a power of two in order to fully fill out a single elimination bracket. In many professional and top-level amateur events, the brackets are Seed (sports), seeded according to a recognised ranking system, in order to keep the best players in the field from facing each other until as late in the tournament as possible; additionally, if Bye (sports), byes are necessary because of a less-than-full bracket, those byes in the first round are usually given to the highest-seeded competitors. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Olympic Committee
A National Olympic Committee (NOC) is a national constituent of the worldwide Olympic movement. Subject to the controls of the International Olympic Committee, NOCs are responsible for organizing their people's participation in the Olympic Games. They may nominate cities within their respective areas as candidates for future Olympic Games. NOCs also promote the development of athletes and the training of coaches and officials at a national level within their geographies. National Olympic Committees As of 2023, there are 206 National Olympic Committees. These include each of the 193 member states of the United Nations, one United Nations General Assembly observers#Non-member observers, UN observer state (Palestine Olympic Committee, Palestine), two list of states with limited recognition, states without UN recognition (Olympic Committee of Kosovo, Kosovo and Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee, Taiwan) and one associated state of New Zealand (the Cook Islands Sports and National O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
Anastasia Sergeyevna "Nastia" Pavlyuchenkova (; born 3 July 1991) is a Russian professional tennis player. She reached a career-high singles WTA rankings, ranking of world No. 11 on 8 November 2021. Pavlyuchenkova has won twelve singles titles on the WTA Tour, and contested a Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major final at the 2021 French Open – Women's singles, 2021 French Open. A junior prodigy, Pavlyuchenkova won three junior major titles and became the junior world No. 1 aged just 14. She was continuously ranked inside the world's top 50 from November 2008 to June 2022. Her biggest singles titles to date came at two WTA Premier tournaments, Premier-level tournaments, the 2014 Open GDF Suez – Singles, 2014 Open GDF Suez and the 2014 Kremlin Cup – Women's singles, 2014 Kremlin Cup. In addition to her 2021 French Open final appearance, Pavlyuchenkova has contested eight other major quarterfinals. Pavlyuchenkova has also had success in doubles, having won six doubles titl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrey Rublev
Andrey Andreyevich Rublev (; born 20 October 1997) is a Russian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 5 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he first achieved in September 2021. Rublev has won 17 ATP Tour singles titles, including two ATP Masters 1000 tournaments, Masters 1000 events at the 2023 Monte-Carlo Masters – Singles, 2023 Monte-Carlo Masters and the 2024 Mutua Madrid Open – Men's singles, 2024 Madrid Open. He has reached the quarterfinals of all four Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, majors. Rublev also has four ATP Tour-level doubles titles, including a Masters 1000 event at the 2023 Mutua Madrid Open – Men's doubles, 2023 Madrid Open partnering Karen Khachanov, and a gold medal in Tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Mixed doubles, mixed doubles at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics partnering Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. In his junior career, Rublev won the 2014 French Open – Boys' singles, 2014 French Op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Tennis Federation
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) is the governing body of world tennis, wheelchair tennis, and beach tennis. It was founded in 1913 as the International Lawn Tennis Federation by twelve national tennis associations. there are 211 national and six regional associations that make up the ITF's membership. The ITF's governance responsibilities include maintaining and enforcing the rules of tennis, regulating international team competitions, promoting the game, and preserving the sport's integrity via anti-doping and anti-corruption programs. The ITF partners with the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) and the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) to govern professional tennis. The ITF organizes annual team competitions for men (Davis Cup), women ( Billie Jean King Cup), and mixed teams ( Hopman Cup), as well as tennis and wheelchair tennis events at the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games on behalf of the International Olympic Committee. The ITF sanctions circuits th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netherlands At The 2024 Summer Olympics
The Netherlands competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. Dutch athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, with the exception of the sparsely attended 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis and 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne (except the equestrian events in Stockholm), which the Netherlands boycotted because of the Soviet invasion of Hungary. The Netherlands left Paris with 34 medals (15 gold, 7 silver, and 12 bronze), this was the country's highest number of gold medals in a single Olympics, beating the 2000 Summer Olympics record of 12. Medalists , width="78%" align="left" valign="top", , style="text-align:left;width:22%;vertical-align:top", Competitors The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. Archery The Netherlands qualified four archers to the games through the 2024 European Continental Qualification Tournament and 2024 European Championships in Essen, Germany. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
