Tennis at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Women's indoor singles
| Women's indoor singles tennis at the Games of the IV Olympiad | ||||||||||
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| Venue | Queen's Club | |||||||||
| Dates | 7–8 July (quarterfinals) 9 July (semifinals) 11 July (final, bronze match) | |||||||||
| Competitors | 7 from 2 nations | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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The indoor women's singles was one of six lawn tennis events on the Tennis at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme.[1]
Results
Standings
| Place | Name | Nation |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith |  Great Britain
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| 2nd | Alice Greene | Great Britain
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| 3rd | Märtha Adlerstråhle |  Sweden
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| 4th | Elsa Wallenberg | Sweden
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| 5th | Penelope Boothby | Great Britain
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| Mildred Coles | Great Britain
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| Violet Pinckney | Great Britain
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Bracket
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||||||||
 Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith
| 7 | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Violet Pinckney
| 5 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith
| 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
 Elsa Wallenberg
| 4 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Elsa Wallenberg
| 11 | 4 | 4[2] | |||||||||||||||||
| Mildred Coles
| 9 | 6 | 5 r | |||||||||||||||||
| Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith
| 6 | 4 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
| Alice Greene
| 2 | 4 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| Alice Greene
| 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Penelope Boothby
| 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Alice Greene
| 6 | 6 | Third place | |||||||||||||||||
| Märtha Adlerstråhle
| 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Märtha Adlerstråhle
| Elsa Wallenberg
| 6 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| bye | Märtha Adlerstråhle
| 1 | 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||
References
- ^ "Tennis at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Women's singles". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
- ^ Cook, p. 222. Coles, with a lead of 5 games to 4 and 40-15 in the game in progress, was a single point from defeating Wallenberg when the Briton suffered an arm injury and could not continue play.
Sources
- Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association.
- De Wael, Herman (2001). "Tennis 1908". Herman's Full Olympians. Retrieved 27 May 2006.