Tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Seed Rank Team Status
1 3 Pierre-Hugues Herbert & Nicolas Mahut France First round , lost to Juan Sebastian Cabal & Robert Farah Colombia
2 6 Andy Murray & Jamie Murray Great Britain First round , lost to Thomaz Bellucci & André Sá Brazil
3 11 Marcelo Melo & Bruno Soares Brazil Quarterfinal , lost to Florin Mergea & Horia Tecău Romania
4 20 Gael Monfils & Jo-Wilfried Tsonga France First round , lost to Brian Baker & Rajeev Ram United States
5 24 Florin Mergea & Horia Tecău Romania Lost Gold medal match to Marc López & Rafael Nadal Spain
6 26 Marc López & Rafael Nadal Spain Won Gold medal match against Florin Mergea & Horia Tecău Romania
7 27 Daniel Nestor & Vasek Pospisil Canada Lost Bronze medal match to Steve Johnson & Jack Sock United States
8 28 Roberto Bautista Agut & David Ferrer Spain Quarterfinal , lost to Steve Johnson & Jack Sock United States
The tennis tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics was held at the Olympic Tennis Centre, from 6 to 14 August. The competition was played on a fast hardcourt surface used in numerous North American tournaments that aims to minimize disruption for players. Initially a total of 172 players were expected to compete in five events: singles and doubles for both men and women and the return of the mixed doubles for the second consecutive time. However, eventually 105 male and 94 female players were granted places in the draws. The Olympic tennis events were run and organized by the Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) and the International Tennis Federation (ITF), and were part of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) and Women's Tennis Association (WTA) tours. The 2016 Olympic tournament was the fifteenth edition of tennis at the Olympics (excluding the two Olympics, 1968 and 1984, when tennis was a demonstration event), and the eighth since 1988, when the sport was officially brought back into the Games. Unlike previous editions of the Olympic event, it was decided that the Olympic tournaments would not offer ATP and WTA ranking points for the players.