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Sports > Olympics > Summer Olympics Through The Years > Event-by-Event > Tennis

Women's Olympic Tennis

Multiple gold medals (including women's doubles): Helen Wills, Gigi Fernandez, Mary Joe Fernandez and Venus Williams (2).

Singles

Year   
1900 Charlotte Cooper Great Britain
1906 Esmee Simiriotou Greece
1908 Dorothea Chambers Great Britain
 (Indoor) Gwen Eastlake-Smith Great Britain
1912 Marguerite Broquedis France
 (Indoor) Edith Hannam Great Britain
1920 Suzanne Lenglen France
1924 Helen Wills United States
1928-84 Not held  
1988 Steffi Graf West Germany
1992 Jennifer Capriati United States
1996Lindsay DavenportUnited States
2000Venus WilliamsUnited States
2004 Justine Henin-HardenneBelgium

Doubles

Year  
1920 Winifred McNair & Kitty McKane, GBR
1924 Hazel Wightman & Helen Wills, USA
1928-84 Not held
1988 Pam Shriver & Zina Garrison, USA
1992 Gigi Fernandez & Mary Joe Fernandez, USA
1996Gigi Fernandez & Mary Joe Fernandez, USA
2000Serena Williams & Venus Williams, USA
2004 Li Ting & Sun Tian Tian, CHN

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