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Tennis · Level 10: Professional · Sub-level 10.4

The Olympics

4 tests · 40 facts · updated 13 October 2026 · markdown

Olympic tennis today: its five events and how they are played, the venues and surfaces since 2012, the golden moments, and how the Games sit in the tour season.

Each test below is ten questions on Insporta. The list under a test is what the questions check: one fact per question, with the source it was written from. Read it before the test, or come back from a wrong answer.

Test 1Tennis at the modern GamesTake a test

  1. Men's and women's singles and doubles, and mixed doubles.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · recall

  2. Mixed doubles had last been played in 1924.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · recall

  3. Half the size of a Grand Slam draw.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · recall

  4. Places go by ranking, with no more than four per nation in each singles draw.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · recall

  5. Eligibility is tied to taking part in the nations' team competitions.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · recall

  6. Bronze was shared in 1988 and 1992; a bronze medal match has been played since 1996.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · recall

  7. Points were given from 2000 for men and 2004 for women, and dropped before 2016.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · recall

  8. 1996, 2012, 2016 and Tokyo 2020.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · recall

  9. A 64-player draw takes six rounds, the last of them being the gold medal match.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · recall

  10. The losing semi-finalists meet in a bronze medal match.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · applied

Test 2Venues and formatsTake a test

  1. The All England Club hosted the Games a few weeks after the Championships.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · recall

  2. The French Open's home hosted the Games two months after the major.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · recall

  3. Rio's Olympic Tennis Centre had hard courts, as did Tokyo's Ariake Tennis Park.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · recall

  4. The Games were held in 2021, a year late.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · recall

  5. Every set, including the third, had a standard seven-point tiebreak.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · recall

  6. Doubles was played as two sets and a match tiebreak.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · recall

  7. The ITF cut it from five sets in 2019, before the Tokyo Games.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · recall

  8. 2012, 2016, 2020 and 2024.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · recall

  9. London 2012, Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · recall

  10. At one set all, doubles went straight to a match tiebreak to 10.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · applied

Test 3Golden momentsTake a test

  1. Murray won in London in 2012 and in Rio in 2016.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · recall

  2. Djokovic beat Alcaraz in the final; Musetti won bronze.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · recall

  3. Zheng beat Vekic in the final; Swiatek won bronze.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · recall

  4. Only Steffi Graf won all five in one year, in 1988.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · recall

  5. Agassi won gold at Atlanta 1996; Agassi, Nadal and Djokovic are the three men to complete it.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · recall

  6. Each won one singles gold and three doubles golds together.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · recall

  7. She won all four majors and Olympic gold in both singles and doubles.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · recall

  8. Seoul 1988, Atlanta 1996, Beijing 2008 and London 2012.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · recall

  9. Sydney 2000, London 2012 and Paris 2024.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · recall

  10. A nation may enter no more than four players in each singles event.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · applied

Test 4The Olympics and the tourTake a test

  1. Players compete for medals; some nations pay their own bonuses.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · recall

  2. Medal contenders often play singles, doubles and mixed in the same week.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · recall

  3. Both were played at Roland Garros, on clay.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · recall

  4. Tennis has been on every programme since Seoul 1988.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · recall

  5. The Czech pair beat China's Wang and Zhang; Canada's pair took bronze.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · recall

  6. With no points and a crowded calendar, some players put the tour first.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · recall

  7. Serena beat Sharapova in the final; Azarenka won bronze.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · recall

  8. Late May, early July, late July and late August.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · recall

  9. 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · recall

  10. Paris 2024 tennis ran from 27 July to 4 August, between Wimbledon and the US Open.

    Source: ITF and IOC: tennis at the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 regulations · applied

Sources

The Grand Slam tournaments, ATP, WTA, ITF (Davis Cup, Billie Jean King Cup, Global Tennis Report 2024), Laver Cup and IOC. Original questions authored, nothing reproduced.

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