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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
1996	Lindsay Davenport	United States
2000	Venus Williams	United States
2004	Justine Henin-Hardenne	Belgium

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
1996	Gigi Fernandez & Mary Joe Fernandez, USA
2000	Serena Williams & Venus Williams, USA
2004	Li Ting & Sun Tian Tian, CHN

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