Tennis at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games: When is it? When’s the draw? What’s the schedule and format? – Eurosport

After Wimbledon it’s normally time to look ahead to the North American hard-court summer, but not this year.

The next big event on the calendar is the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

The tennis competition at the Games will see eight gold medals up for grabs across five events: men’s and women’s singles, men’s and women’s doubles, and mixed doubles.

Most of the big hitters in the tennis world will be competing for their countries, including Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Carlos Alcaraz, Andy Murray, Iga Swiatek and Coco Gauff.

When does the tennis event start, what’s the schedule, when is the draw, and when the medal matches? We run through all you need to know about the timetable and format…

The Paris Olympic tennis event starts on July 27 and finishes on August 4.

It will be played on clay at Roland-Garros, the home of the French Open.

It starts three weeks after the Wimbledon final and three weeks before the hard-court US Open.

The draw for the tennis event at the Paris 2024 Olympics takes place on Thursday, July 25 at 10am UK time.

The opening ceremony for the Games is on Friday, July 26 and the first day of the tennis event will follow on Saturday, July 27.

The singles finals will be held on the weekend of August 3.

Play will start at 11am UK time every day, with Court Philippe-Chatrier also having a session beginning at 6pm UK time from July 27 to August 2.

Paris 2024 Olympics tennis schedule

• Thursday, July 25: Draw
• Saturday, July 27: Men’s and women’s singles first round, men’s and women’s doubles first round
• Sunday, July 28: Men’s and women’s singles first round, men’s and women’s doubles first round
• Monday, July 29: Men’s and women’s singles second round, men’s and women’s doubles second round, mixed doubles first round
• Tuesday, July 30: Men’s singles second round, women’s singles third round, men’s doubles quarter-finals, women’s doubles second round and quarter-finals, mixed doubles first round
• Wednesday, July 31: Men’s singles third round, women’s singles quarter-finals, men’s doubles semi-finals, women’s doubles quarter-finals, mixed doubles quarter-finals
• Thursday, August 1: Men’s singles quarter-finals, women’s singles semi-finals, women’s doubles semi-finals, mixed doubles semi-finals
• Friday, August 2: Men’s singles semi-finals, women’s singles bronze medal match, men’s doubles bronze medal match, mixed doubles bronze medal match, mixed doubles final
• Saturday, August 3: Women’s singles final, men’s singles bronze medal match, men’s doubles final
• Sunday, August 4: Men’s singles final, women’s doubles bronze medal match, women’s doubles final

The men’s and women’s singles will both be 64-player draws.

The men’s and women’s doubles will each be 32 teams and mixed doubles will be 16 teams.

All singles matches are best-of-three sets with a seven-point tie-breaker in the third set. The doubles matches are also best-of-three sets but a match tie-break will be contested instead of a third set.

There are no ranking points on offer for players at the Olympics.

The confirmed players and doubles teams have been named for the Paris Olympics.

Headlining the action will be Rafael Nadal, Carlos Alcaraz, Novak Djokovic, Iga Swiatek, Jannik Sinner, Andy Murray and Coco Gauff.

Among those missing the tournament are Aryna Sabalenka, Ons Jabeur and Frances Tiafoe.