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 10 August to 17 August at the Olympic Green Tennis Centre. The DecoTurf surface rendered the event a hardcourt tournament. The defending champions were Li Ting and Sun Tiantian, but Li retired from tennis in 2007. Sun partnered Peng Shuai, and the pair were defeated in the first round by Olga Govortsova and Darya Kustova of Belarus.
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Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics | |
Champions | ![]() ![]() |
Runners-up | ![]() ![]() |
Final score | 6–2, 6–0 |
Women's doubles tennis at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Olympic Green Tennis Centre | ||||||||||||
Date | 10 to 17 August | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 64 from 21 nations | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Serena Williams and Venus Williams of the United States defeated Spaniards Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual in the final 6–2, 6–0. The bronze medal was won by Yan Zi and Zheng Jie of China, who defeated Ukraine's Alona Bondarenko and Kateryna Bondarenko in the bronze medal match 6–2, 6–2. This was the Williams sisters' second Olympic gold medal in Women's Doubles.
Medalists
Gold | Serena Williams / Venus Williams![]() |
Silver | Anabel Medina Garrigues / Virginia Ruano Pascual![]() |
Bronze | Yan Zi / Zheng Jie![]() |
Calendar
August | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
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Morning | 10.30 | 10.30 | 10.30 | |||||
Afternoon | 17.00 | 17.00 | 17.00 | 16.00 | 16.00 | 16.00 | 16.00 | 16.00 |
Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Bronze Final |
Seeds
Svetlana Kuznetsova / Dinara Safina (RUS) (Quarterfinals)
Serena Williams / Venus Williams (USA) (Champions, Gold Medalists)
Chan Yung-jan / Chuang Chia-jung (TPE) (Second Round)
Anabel Medina Garrigues / Virginia Ruano Pascual (ESP) (Final, Silver Medalists)
Lindsay Davenport / Liezel Huber (USA) (Quarterfinals)
Alona Bondarenko / Kateryna Bondarenko (UKR) (Semifinals, Fourth Place)
Elena Vesnina / Vera Zvonareva (RUS) (Quarterfinals)
Yan Zi / Zheng Jie (CHN) (Semifinals, Bronze Medalists)
Draw
Key
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Finals
Semifinals | Final (gold medal match) | ||||||||||||
8 | ![]() ![]() | 4 | 65 | ||||||||||
4 | ![]() ![]() | 6 | 77 | ||||||||||
4 | ![]() ![]() | 2 | 0 | ||||||||||
2 | ![]() ![]() | 6 | 6 | ||||||||||
6 | ![]() ![]() | 6 | 4 | 1 | |||||||||
2 | ![]() ![]() | 4 | 6 | 6 | Bronze medal match | ||||||||
8 | ![]() ![]() | 6 | 6 | ||||||||||
6 | ![]() ![]() | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||