Tennis at the 1992 Summer Olympics
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These are the final results for the tennis
competition at the 1992 Summer Olympics
in Barcelona
, Spain
.
American
teenager Jennifer Capriati
stunned German (and defending champion) Steffi Graf
in the women's singles final to win the gold medal. Marc Rosset
became the first Swiss Olympic tennis gold medalist.
The matches were played on outdoor clay
courts.
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
competition at the 1992 Summer Olympics
1992 Summer Olympics
The 1992 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event celebrated in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, in 1992. The International Olympic Committee voted in 1986 to separate the Summer and Winter Games, which had been held in the same...
in Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
, Spain
Spain
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.
American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
teenager Jennifer Capriati
Jennifer Capriati
Jennifer Marie Capriati is a former world number one ranked professional tennis player, and the winner of three women's singles championships in Grand Slam tournaments. Capriati made her professional debut in 1990 at the age of 14 when she reached the finals of the hard court tournament in Boca...
stunned German (and defending champion) Steffi Graf
Steffi Graf
Steffi Graf is a former World No. 1 German tennis player.In total, Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, second among male and female players only to Margaret Court's 24...
in the women's singles final to win the gold medal. Marc Rosset
Marc Rosset
Marc Rosset is a former professional tennis player from Switzerland who is best remembered for winning the men's singles Gold Medal at the 1992 Olympic Games....
became the first Swiss Olympic tennis gold medalist.
The matches were played on outdoor clay
Clay
Clay is a general term including many combinations of one or more clay minerals with traces of metal oxides and organic matter. Geologic clay deposits are mostly composed of phyllosilicate minerals containing variable amounts of water trapped in the mineral structure.- Formation :Clay minerals...
courts.
Medal table
| 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Total | 4 | 4 | 8 | 16 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Events
| Men's Singles | |||
| Men's Doubles | |||
| Women's Singles | |||
| Women's Doubles | |||