Rio Olympics: By The Numbers

Rio Olympics: By The Numbers

  • Posted: Jan 01, 1970

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil How many people will cram into The Maria Esther Bueno Tennis Stadium to watch next Saturday’s singles final? Which nations are best represented in the draw? And whose record is Venus Williams set to match? These are just a few of the questions answered in an Olympic special of wtatennis.com’s By The Numbers.

10,000 – The Olympic Tennis Center’s main court seats 10,000 spectators and was named after Brazilian legend, Maria Bueno, who won 19 Grand Slam titles in the 1950s and 1960s

63 – Since its reintroduction in 1988, 63 different countries have been represented in the tennis competition

42 – The number of games it took the Soviet Union’s Larisa Savchenko to defeat Sara Gomer in Seoul in 1988. In terms of games played, Savchenko’s 6-7(3), 7-6(3), 9-7 victory remains the longest in the Games’ history

24 – World No.24 Alicia Molik, who won bronze at Athens in 2004, is the only unseeded player to collect a medal at the Olympics

18 – At 18 years old Ana Konjuh is the youngest player competing in the singles draw. In 1992, Jennifer Capriati, then 16 years and 132 days old, beat Steffi Graf to win gold

13 – Venus owns a 13-3 record in singles competition at the Olympic Games, the most match wins since tennis returned in 1988

12 – Serena (9) and Venus (13) boast by far the most singles match wins at this summer’s Games. Caroline Wozniacki (5) is next on the list, while the 14 seeds not named Williams have a combined total of just 12

10 – Atlanta gold medalist Lindsay Davenport was No.10 at the time of the Games. She is the lowest-ranked player to win the singles competition

5 -This will be Venus’ fifth Olympics equaling Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario’s record for most appearances

4 – China, Germany, Russia, and the United States all have the maximum of four representatives in the singles draw

3 – Serena and Venus have picked up doubles gold on each occasion they have competed together (2000, 2008 and 2012)

2 – The top seed has won gold at only two of the seven Games since 1988 – Graf (1988) and Justine Henin (2004)

1 – Serena’s solitary defeat in her two previous bids for singles gold came at the hands of eventual winner Elena Dementieva in the Beijing quarterfinals

0 – Prior to Rio, no Turkish tennis player had competed in the Olympic tennis competition. Cagla Buyukakcay will be the first

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