Tennis At The 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's Doubles
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in the final, 6–2, 3–6, 6–4 to win the gold medal in Men's Doubles
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. It was Spain's first victory in men's doubles and its first medal in the event since 2000. Romania won its first men's doubles medal. In the bronze-medal match, the
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, 6–2, 6–4. It was the United States' third consecutive medal in the event. The tournament was held at the Olympic Tennis Centre in the Barra Olympic Park in
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, Brazil from 6–12 August 2016. There were 32 pairs from 26 nations. The
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, but they withdrew before the competition due to health concerns.


Background

This was the 15th appearance of men's doubles tennis. The event has been held at every Summer Olympics where tennis has been on the program: from 1896 to 1924 and then from 1988 to the current program. A demonstration event was held in 1968. The American reigning champion pair of
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, had been the top seed in the past three Games and would have been again in 2016, but they withdrew.
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of France, silver medal winner in 2012 with
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, returned with a new partner in
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. 2000 gold medalist
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(and career golden slam winner) of Canada competed for a fifth Games with his third different partner. The number one seed thus went to
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of France, with the British Murray brothers
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the number two seed. Thailand and Ukraine both made their debut in the event. France and Great Britain each made their 12th appearance in the event, tied for most of all nations.


Qualification

Qualification for the men's singles was primarily through the ATP ranking list of 11 June 2016. An additional restriction was that players had to have been part of a nominated team for three
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events between 2013 and 2016 (with some exceptions). Nations had been able to enter four players (two pairs) in the event since the 2004 Games. Each nation was limited to a total of 6 male players in the singles and doubles events combined, so nations with 4 singles players could add only 2 more in doubles. The men's doubles draw was 32 pairs (64 players). Doubles players ranked 10 or better qualified directly and could bring any ranked singles or doubles player from their nation as their partner. This resulted in 6 pairs being filled, as 2 pairs consisted of both players in the top 10 and the Bryan brothers declined to use their qualification places. The draw was then filled to 24 pairs (that is, 18 new pairs) through combined ranking. The better of a player's singles or doubles ranking was used, and the two rankings of a pair of players were added to give a combined ranking, with the lowest rankings earning qualifying spots. (For example,
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was ranked #4 in singles and #144 in doubles and
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had no singles ranking and was ranked #18 in doubles; they had a combined ranking of 22, earning the first quota spot through this method.) The final 8 pairs were selected by the ITF considering both combined ranking (as above) as well as continental and national representation, including host nation places if not qualified (bringing the total number of male tennis players to 86).


Competition format

The competition was a single-elimination tournament with a bronze-medal match. All matches were best-of-three sets. Tiebreaks were used for any set before the third (fifth in the final) that reached 6–6.


Schedule


Seeds

/ ''(first round)'' / ''(first round)'' / ''(quarterfinals)'' / ''(first round)'' / ''(final, silver medalists)'' / (champions, gold medalists) / ''(semifinals, fourth place)'' / ''(quarterfinals)''


Draw


Key

* INV = Tripartite invitation * IP = ITF place * Alt =
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* w/o =
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* r = Retired * d = Defaulted


Finals


Top half


Bottom half


References


External links


Men's Doubles Drawsheet

Olympic Tennis Event

Entry List
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