At the 1896 Summer Olympics, two tennis events were contested, both for men. They were begun on 8 April and continued on 9 April, 10 April, and 11 April.^[1] 13 competitors from 6 nations, including 7 Greeks, took part in the tennis competition. Many of the doubles teams were of mixed nationality, including all three medalist pairs.

[edit] Medal summary

These medals are retroactively assigned by the International Olympic Committee; at the time, winners were given a silver medal and subsequent places received no award.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles details	John Pius Boland Great Britain (GBR)	Dionysios Kasdaglis Greece (GRE)	Konstantinos Paspatis Greece (GRE)
			Momcsilló Tapavicza Hungary (HUN)
Men's doubles details	John Pius Boland (GBR) and  Friedrich Traun (GER)	Demetrios Petrokokkinos and Dionysios Kasdaglis (GRE)	Edwin Flack (AUS) and  George S. Robertson (GBR)

The doubles team of Kasdaglis and Petrokokkinos appears in the IOC results database as a mixed team. Kasdaglis is listed as Greek in the database for the singles event. Petrokokkinos, not having won a singles medal, is not identified with any nation in the IOC database; however, all sources which do give a nationality for Petrokokkinos give it as Greek. Kasdaglis, a Greek national residing in Alexandria, is listed as Egyptian in some sources.

[edit] Participating nations

A total of 13 tennis players from 6 nations competed at the Athens Games:

• Australia (1)
• France (1)
• Germany (1)
• Great Britain (2)
• Greece (7)
• Hungary (1)

[edit] Medal table

Singles final in 1896 Olympic tennis

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Mixed team	1	1	1	3
2	Great Britain	1	0	0	1
3	Greece	0	1	1	2
4	Hungary	0	0	1	1

France had a tennis player compete but he won no medals. Competitors from Australia and Germany won medals only as a part of a mixed team in the doubles event.

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Dates given are in the Gregorian calendar. Greece still used the Julian calendar at the time. According to that calendar, the tennis competition began on 27 March and closed on 30 March.

[edit] References

• International Olympic Committee results database
• Lampros, S.P.; Polites, N.G.; De Coubertin, Pierre; Philemon, P.J.; & Anninos, C. (1897). The Olympic Games: BC 776 – AD 1896. Athens: Charles Beck.  (Digitally available at [1])
• Mallon, Bill; & Widlund, Ture (1998). The 1896 Olympic Games. Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary. Jefferson: McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0379-9.  (Excerpt available at [2])
• Smith, Michael Llewellyn (2004). Olympics in Athens 1896. The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games. London: Profile Books. ISBN 1-86197-342-X. 

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