Croatia
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's
Nikola Mektić and
Mate Pavić
Mate Pavić (; born 4 July 1993) is a Croatian professional tennis player. He is the current world No. 1 in doubles by the ATP. Pavić is one of only six men to complete the Career Golden Slam in doubles.
He is a seven-time Grand Slam champio ...
defeated compatriots
Marin Čilić
Marin Čilić (; born 28 September 1988) is a Croatian professional tennis player. He has been ranked world No. 3 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), achieved on 28 January 2018. Čilić has won 21 ATP Tour-level si ...
and
Ivan Dodig
Ivan Dodig (; born 2 January 1985) is a Croatian professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. He reached his career-high doubles ranking of World No. 2 in September 2023.
He is a seven-time Grand Slam champion, having won men's double ...
in the final, 6–4, 3–6,
0–6to win the gold medal in Men's Doubles
tennis
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at the
2020 Summer Olympics
The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ...
. This was Croatia's first Olympic tennis gold and silver medals. For the first time since
1908, the gold medal match was contested by pairs representing the same country. In the bronze medal match,
New Zealand
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's
Marcus Daniell and
Michael Venus defeated the
United States
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'
Austin Krajicek
Austin Krajicek ( ; born June 16, 1990) is an American professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 1 in doubles by the ATP in June 2023. He attained a career-high singles ranking of world No. 94 in October 2015.
A form ...
and
Tennys Sandgren
Tennys Loren Sandgren II ( ; born July 22, 1991) is an American former professional tennis player. He has achieved a career-high ATP singles ATP rankings, ranking of No. 41 on January 14, 2019. He played two years of college tennis at the Univer ...
, 7–6
(7–3), 6–2. It was New Zealand's first Olympic tennis medal.
Spain's
Marc López
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Partnering wi ...
and
Rafael Nadal
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were the reigning gold medalists from
2016
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, but they chose not to participate.
This was the 16th (medal) appearance of the men's doubles tennis event. 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 competition was a single-elimination tournament with a bronze medal match. Matches were best-of-3 sets, except that the third set was a match tiebreak (first to 10 points) instead of a typical set.
A
tiebreak was played if one of the first two sets reached 6–6.
Qualification
Each
National Olympic Committee
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(NOC) can enter up to two pairs (four players). The total number of male players, in both singles and doubles, for each nation may not exceed six. There are 32 pairs places (64 players) in the event. Qualification is based primarily on the ranking lists of 7 June 2021.
Up to 10 pairs are selected through individual doubles ranking. The top 10 players in the doubles ranking qualify and may bring any partner with a ranking in the top 300 in either singles or doubles.
[
The draw is then filled to 24 pairs (that is, at least 14 additional pairs and possibly more depending on how the top 10 use their spots) through combined ranking. The better of a player's singles or doubles ranking is used, and the two rankings of a pair of players are added to give a combined ranking, with the lowest rankings earning qualifying spots.][
If the quota of 86 total male players in singles and doubles has not been reached, the combined ranking continues until either the 86 total quota places are filled or the 32 pair maximum is reached.][
Once the 86 player quota is met, priority is given to pairs with both members playing in singles (with combined ranking used to select within that group). In the unlikely event that this does not finish filling the 32 pairs, additional spots will be qualified with priority given to pairs with one member playing in singles; finally, if the 32 pair spots still are not filled, the combined ranking of pairs without any singles players is used.][
]
Schedule
The competition was held over seven days from 24 July to 30 July. Times given are the start of tennis sessions, though the men's doubles shares courts with other tennis events.
All times are Japan Standard Time
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( UTC+9)
Seeds
/ (champions, gold medalists)
/ ''(first round)''
/ ''(quarterfinals)''
/ ''(first round)''
/ ''(first round)''
/ ''(first round)''
/ ''(second round)''
/ ''(second round, withdrew due to a positive test for COVID-19)''
Draw
Finals
Top half
Bottom half
References
External links
Draw
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Tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Men's events at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Men's doubles tennis at the Summer Olympics