Tennis at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Women's indoor singles

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Women's indoor singles tennis
at the Games of the IV Olympiad
VenueQueen's Club
Dates6–11 May 1908
Competitors9 from 2 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith
 Great Britain
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Alice Greene
 Great Britain
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Märtha Adlerstråhle
 Sweden
1912 →
Women's indoor singles
Tennis at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Events
Outdoor
Singles men women
Doubles men
Indoor
Singles men women
Doubles men
← 1904 · Summer Olympics · 1912 →

The indoor women'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

Draw

First round Quarterfinals Semifinals Final (gold-medal match)
 
D Lambert Chambers (GBR
) 		w/o
 M Adlerstråhle (SWE)
 M Adlerstråhle (SWE) 1 3
 A Greene (GBR) 6 6
 D Boothby (GBR) 2 2
 A Greene (GBR)  A Greene (GBR) 6 6
 R Winch (GBR) w/o  A Greene (GBR) 2 6 0
 G Eastlake-Smith (GBR) 6 4 6
 E Wallenberg (SWE) 11 4 4
 M Coles (GBR)[2] 9 6 5r
 E Wallenberg (SWE) 4 4 Bronze-medal match
 G Eastlake-Smith (GBR) 6 6
 G Eastlake-Smith (GBR) 7 7  E Wallenberg (SWE) 6 2 3
 V Pinckney (GBR) 5 5  M Adlerstråhle (SWE) 1 6 6

References

  1. ^ Official Report, p. 36.
  2. ^ 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.

External links

  • Cook, Theodore Andrea (May 1909). The Fourth Olympiad London 1908 Official Report (PDF). London: British Olympic Association. Retrieved 8 May 2008.
  • ITF, 2008 Olympic Tennis Event Media Guide
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