Tennis at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's indoor singles
Tennis at the Olympics
Men's indoor singles tennis at the Games of the IV Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Queen's Club | ||||||||||||
Dates | 6–11 May 1908 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 10 from 3 nations | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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1912 → |
Men's indoor singles | ||||||||||||||||||
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1908 tennis event results
The indoor men's singles was one of six lawn tennis events on the Tennis at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. Nations could enter up to 12 players.[1]
Draw
Key
- 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
Draw
First round | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final (gold-medal match) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Anthony Wilding (ANZ) | w/o | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arthur Gore (GBR) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arthur Gore (GBR) | 4 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Major Ritchie (GBR) | 6 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Les Poidevin (ANZ) | w/o | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Major Ritchie (GBR) | Major Ritchie (GBR) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Herbert Roper Barrett (GBR) | w/o | Arthur Gore (GBR) | 6 | 7 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gunnar Setterwall (SWE) | 6 | 6 | 6 | George Caridia (GBR) | 3 | 5 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lionel Escombe (GBR) | 2 | 3 | 1 | Gunnar Setterwall (SWE) | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
George Caridia (GBR) | 6 | 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
George Caridia (GBR) | 7 | 0 | Bronze-medal match | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wilberforce Eaves (GBR) | 5 | 0r | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wollmar Boström (SWE) | 5 | 2 | 7 | Major Ritchie (GBR) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wilberforce Eaves (GBR) | 7 | 6 | 9 | Wilberforce Eaves (GBR) | w/o |
There was no match for third place. Eaves, described in the Official Report as "obviously out of condition",[2] had not finished his semifinal match after a tight first set played in great heat. Ritchie, therefore, was awarded the bronze medal.
Notes
External links
- Cook, Theodore Andrea (May 1909). The Fourth Olympiad London 1908 Official Report (PDF). London: British Olympic Association. Retrieved 2008-05-08.
- ITF, 2008 Olympic Tennis Event Media Guide
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Olympic tennis men's singles champions
- 1968: Manuel Santana (ESP)
- 1984: Stefan Edberg (SWE)
- 1908: Arthur Gore (GBR)
- 1912: André Gobert (FRA)
- 1896: John Pius Boland (GBR)
- 1900: Laurence Doherty (GBR)
- 1904: Beals Wright (USA)
- 1908: Major Ritchie (GBR)
- 1912: Charles Winslow (RSA)
- 1920: Louis Raymond (RSA)
- 1924: Vincent Richards (USA)
- 1988: Miloslav Mečíř (TCH)
- 1992: Marc Rosset (SUI)
- 1996: Andre Agassi (USA)
- 2000: Yevgeny Kafelnikov (RUS)
- 2004: Nicolás Massú (CHI)
- 2008: Rafael Nadal (ESP)
- 2012: Andy Murray (GBR)
- 2016: Andy Murray (GBR)
- 2020: Alexander Zverev (GER)