Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Women's Doubles

The Women's Doubles tennis competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing was held from August 10 to August 17 at the Olympic Green Tennis Centre. The DecoTurf surface rendered the event a hardcourt tournament.

The results returned the gold to the United States, after the only Olympiad at which they had not won the gold medal since the event's re-introduction in 1998. It was also the second occasion on which the team of Serena and Venus Williams emerged as Olympic champions, having previously captured the gold in Sydney. Spanish Olympian, Virginia Ruano Pascual, successfully defended her silver medal from Athens, albeit with a different partner. Although China failed to repeat its historic championship performance from Athens, it did return to the medal stand for a bronze. Russia, whose doubles teams were comprised of individuals who had won all the medals in this Olympiad's singles event, failed to advance past the quarterfinals.

Medalists

Calendar

eeds

1. flagIOCathlete|Svetlana Kuznetsova / Dinara Safina|RUS|2008 Summer "(Quarterfinals)
2. flagIOCathlete|Serena Williams / Venus Williams|USA|2008 Summer (Champions, Gold Medalists)
3. flagIOCathlete|Yung-jan Chan / Chia-jung Chuang|TPE|2008 Summer "(Second Round)
4. flagIOCathlete|Anabel Medina Garrigues / Virginia Ruano Pascual|ESP|2008 Summer "(Final, Silver Medalists)
   5. flagIOCathlete|Lindsay Davenport / Liezel Huber|USA|2008 Summer "(Quarterfinals)
   6. flagIOCathlete|Alona Bondarenko / Kateryna Bondarenko|UKR|2008 Summer "(Semifinals, Fourth Place)
   7. flagIOCathlete|Elena Vesnina / Vera Zvonareva|RUS|2008 Summer "(Quarterfinals)
   8. flagIOCathlete|Zi Yan / Jie Zheng|CHN|2008 Summer "(Semifinals, Bronze Medalists)

      Draw

      Key

      * INV = Tripartite Invitation
      * IP = ITF Place
      * ALT = Alternate
      * r = Retired
      * w/o = Walkover

      Finals

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      RD2=Final (Gold Medal Match)
      3rd=Bronze Medal Match

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      RD1-score1-3=
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      flagIOCathlete|Virginia Ruano Pascual|ESP|2008 Summer
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      RD1-score2-3=}

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      flagIOCathlete|Kateryna Bondarenko|UKR|2008 Summer
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      RD1-score3-2=4
      RD1-score3-3=1
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      RD2-score2-3=

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      flagIOCathlete|Jie Zheng|CHN|2008 Summer
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      3rd-score1-2=6
      3rd-score1-3=
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      flagIOCathlete|Kateryna Bondarenko|UKR|2008 Summer
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      3rd-score2-2=2
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      RD3=Quarterfinals
      RD4=Semifinals

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      RD1-seed05=IP
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      RD1-score06-2=4
      RD1-score06-3=

      RD1-seed07=
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      flagIOCathlete|J Husarova|SVK|2008 Summer
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      RD1-score07-3=
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      flagIOCathlete|J Zheng|CHN|2008 Summer
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      flagIOCathlete|L Safarova|CZE|2008 Summer
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      RD1-score12-2=0
      RD1-score12-3=

      RD1-seed13=IP
      RD1-team13=flagIOCathlete|M Ani|EST|2008 Summer
      flagIOCathlete|K Kanepi|EST|2008 Summer
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      RD2-score02-2=4
      RD2-score02-3=

      RD2-seed03=
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      RD3-score01-3=8
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      RD3-seed03=4
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      Bottom Half

      16TeamBracket-Compact-Tennis3
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      RD3=Quarterfinals
      RD4=Semifinals

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      flagIOCathlete|K Bondarenko|UKR|2008 Summer
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      RD1-seed03=
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      RD1-seed05=
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      flagIOCathlete|A Molik|AUS|2008 Summer
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      RD1-score05-2=4
      RD1-score05-3=
      RD1-seed06=
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      flagIOCathlete|F Schiavone|ITA|2008 Summer
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      RD1-seed07=
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      flagIOCathlete|V Razzano|FRA|2008 Summer
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      RD1-seed08=3
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      flagIOCathlete|C-j Chuang|TPE|2008 Summer
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      RD1-seed09=7
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      RD1-seed11=IP
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      flagIOCathlete|S Peer|ISR|2008 Summer
      RD1-score11-1=3
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      RD1-team12="'flagIOCathlete|G Dulko|ARG|2008 Summer
      flagIOCathlete|B Jozami|ARG|2008 Summer
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      RD1-seed13=
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      RD1-seed14=IP
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      RD1-score14-2=3
      RD1-score14-3=

      RD1-seed15=
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      flagIOCathlete|N Vaidisova|CZE|2008 Summer
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      RD1-seed16=2
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      RD2-seed01=6
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      flagIOCathlete|F Schiavone|ITA|2008 Summer
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      RD2-seed05=7
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      RD2-seed07=
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      RD2-team08=flagIOCathlete|S Williams|USA|2008 Summer
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      RD3-seed01=6
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      flagIOCathlete|F Schiavone|ITA|2008 Summer
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      RD3-score02-3=5

      RD3-seed03=7
      RD3-team03=flagIOCathlete|E Vesnina|RUS|2008 Summer
      flagIOCathlete|V Zvonareva|RUS|2008 Summer
      RD3-score03-1=4
      RD3-score03-2=0
      RD3-score03-3=
      RD3-seed04=2
      RD3-team04="'flagIOCathlete|S Williams|USA|2008 Summer
      flagIOCathlete|V Williams|USA|2008 Summer
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      RD3-score04-2=6
      RD3-score04-3=

      RD4-seed01=6
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      flagIOCathlete|K Bondarenko|UKR|2008 Summer
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      RD4-score01-2=4
      RD4-score01-3=1
      RD4-seed02=2
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      External links

      * [http://www.sonyericssonwtatour.com/1/global/Pdfs/events/2008/olympics_draws.pdf Draw]