Tennis at the 1896 Summer Olympics
At the 1896 Summer Olympics, two tennis events were contested, both for men. They were begun on 8 April and continued on 9 April, 10 April, and 11 April.[1] 13 competitors from 6 nations, including 7 Greeks, took part in the tennis competition. Many of the doubles teams were of mixed nationality, including all three medalist pairs.
Medal summary
These medals are retroactively assigned by the International Olympic Committee; at the time, winners were given a silver medal and subsequent places received no award.
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's singles |
John Pius Boland Great Britain
|
Dionysios Kasdaglis Greece
|
Konstantinos Paspatis Greece
|
Momcsilló Tapavicza Hungary
| |||
| Men's doubles |
 John Pius Boland (GBR) and Friedrich Traun (GER)
|
 Demetrios Petrokokkinosand Dionysios Kasdaglis (GRE) |
 Edwin Flack (AUS) and George S. Robertson (GBR)
|
The doubles team of Kasdaglis and Petrokokkinos appears in the IOC results database as a mixed team. Kasdaglis is listed as Greek in the database for the singles event. Petrokokkinos, not having won a singles medal, is not identified with any nation in the IOC database; however, all sources which do give a nationality for Petrokokkinos give it as Greek. Kasdaglis, a Greek national residing in Alexandria, is listed as Egyptian in some sources.
Participating nations
A total of 13 tennis players from 6 nations competed at the Athens Games:
Medal table
| 1 |  Mixed team |
1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | Great Britain |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | Greece |
0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 |  Hungary |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
France had a tennis player compete but he won no medals. Competitors from Australia and Germany won medals only as a part of a mixed team in the doubles event.
Notes
- ^ Dates given are in the Gregorian calendar. Greece still used the Julian calendar at the time. According to that calendar, the tennis competition began on 27 March and closed on 30 March.
References
- International Olympic Committee results database
- Lampros, S.P.; Polites, N.G.; De Coubertin, Pierre; Philemon, P.J.; & Anninos, C. (1897). The Olympic Games: BC 776 – AD 1896. Athens: Charles Beck.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) (Digitally available at [1]) - Mallon, Bill; & Widlund, Ture (1998). The 1896 Olympic Games. Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary. Jefferson: McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0379-9.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) (Excerpt available at [2]) - Smith, Michael Llewellyn (2004). Olympics in Athens 1896. The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games. London: Profile Books. ISBN 1-86197-342-X.
