Tennis at 2024 Paris Olympics: Scoring rules, format and path to medal

The Paris Paris Olympics 2024 is gearing up to be a spectacular event in the French capital. The upcoming edition is set to commence from July 26, with some events, starting tomorrow. This time out, there will be a total of 329 events played across 32 sports and tennis stands out as an important one of them.

Tennis made its debut at the modern-day Olympics in its very first edition back in Athens in 1896. Later on, after the 1924 Games, it was excluded from the quadrennial event due to a dispute between the International Lawn Tennis Federation and the International Olympic Committee.

A long time later in the 1968 Mexico Games and the 1984 Los Angeles Games it was added as a demonstration event and finally made its comeback as a full medal sport in the 1988 Seoul Games.

Till now heavyweights and legends of the game like Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, and Serena Williams have won the championships, albeit in different categories.

India have fielded a decent-looking contingent for the tennis events. Sumit Nagal will be representing the Tricolour in the singles event and the duo of Rohan Bopanna and Sriram Balaji will take the court in the men's doubles event.

---

Rules of the sport

The game of tennis is played on a court divided into two equal halves by a net. Players use a racket and a tennis ball to play this game. The categories which are played are men's and women's singles, men's, women's, and mixed doubles. In the singles event, the winner is decided as per the best-of-three format, with a standard tie-break in every set including the final one.

---

Format and path to medal

All categories (men's and women's singles, men's, women's, and mixed doubles) will see the competition start in the first round, followed by the second and third before entering the quarter-finals. Post that, the semi-finals, bronze medal match, and gold medal match will be played.

​