Who Won Gold in Tennis at the 2016 Olympics?

Who won gold in tennis at the 2016 Olympics? This question and more will be answered in our blog post. Stay tuned to find out!

Rafael Nadal

Rafael Nadal of Spain won the gold medal in tennis at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. This was Nadal’s second Olympic gold medal, having won the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

His performance in the 2016 Olympics

Rafael Nadal Parera is a Spanish professional tennis player. He is widely regarded as the greatest clay-court tennis player in history. Nadal has won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, the second most in history for a male player, as well as a record 33 ATP Tour Masters 1000 and 19 ATP Tour 500 tournaments. He was also a member of the winning Spain Davis Cup team in 2004, 2008, 2009, and 2011. In 2010, he became the seventh player in history and youngest of four in the Open Era to achieve the Career Grand Slam at age 24. He is the only male player in tennis history to win one Grand Slam and Masters 1000 title for ten consecutive years from 2005–2014. Nadal was ranked world No. 1 for a record 206 weeks, including a record 157 consecutive weeks.

Nadal’s success on clay has earned him the nickname “The King of Clay”. His racket-wielding celebrations and fist pumps are often mimicked by others players on tour such as Juan Martín del Potro and Stan Wawrinka.

His career highlights

Rafael Nadal Parera is a Spanish professional tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 2 in men’s singles tennis by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). He has won 16 Grand Slam singles titles, the 2008 Olympic gold medal in singles, 27 ATP World Tour Masters 1000 titles, 12 ATP World Tour 500 tournaments, and was the year-end No. 1 ranked player in both 2008 and 2010. In Major League Baseball, a grand slam is awarded to a batter who hits a home run with the bases loaded, thereby scoring four runs—the most possible in one play. A player who hits three home runs in one game without the bases being loaded is instead said to have hit a hat-trick….

Andy Murray

Andy Murray is a Scottish professional tennis player from Dunblane, Scotland. He is currently ranked number two in the world by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). He has won two Grand Slam singles titles, the 2016 Wimbledon Championships and the 2012 US Open. At the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, he successfully defended his Olympic title by winning the gold medal in the men’s singles event.

His performance in the 2016 Olympics

Andy Murray of Great Britain celebrates winning the gold medal in the Men’s Singles Tennis final against Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina on Day 15 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Tennis Centre on August 14, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Murray defeated del Potro in straight sets, 6-4, 7-5 to become the first player from Great Britain to win an Olympic gold medal in tennis since 1908.

His career highlights

Andy Murray OBE is a British professional tennis player from Scotland, ranked No.1 in men’s singles. He is a three-time Grand Slam tournament winner, two-time Olympic champion, Davis Cup champion, winner of the 2016 ATP World Tour Finals, and former world No.1.

Murray represents Great Britain in his sporting activities and is a member of the Lawn Tennis Association. He has won 18 ATP singles titles and three doubles titles, including two Wimbledon mixed doubles crowns with Laura Robson and Heather Watson.

Born in Glasgow, Murray played tennis from an early age and competed on the junior circuit until he was 18 years old. In 2004, he turned professional and won his first ATP singles title that year at the SAP Open. The following year he debuted at Wimbledon and reached the second round. He climbed up the rankings steadily over the next few years until he broke into the top 10 for the first time after winning at Queen’s Club in 2009.

Murray’s breakthrough came at the 2012 US Open when he defeated Novak Djokovic in five sets to win his first Grand Slam singles title and become only the fifth British man to win a major since 1937. The following year he retained his Olympic gold medal by defeating Roger Federer in straight sets in the final of the London Olympics. In 2013, Murray won his second Wimbledon title by defeating Djokovic in straight sets in that year’s final; this made him only the eighth British man to win multiple Wimbledon singles titles since 1900

Juan Martin del Potro

Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina won the gold medal in tennis at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Del Potro defeated defending champion Andy Murray of Great Britain in the final, 6–4, 7–6(7–2). This was del Potro’s first Olympic medal, and he became the first Argentine tennis player to win an Olympic singles gold medal.

His performance in the 2016 Olympics

Juan Martin del Potro entered the 2016 Summer Olympics as the sixth seed. He had a first-round bye before facing Portugal’s João Sousa in the second round, whom he beat in straight sets. In the third round, he played Kazakhstan’s Mikhail Kukushkin, also winning in straight sets. This set up a meeting with defending Olympic champion Andy Murray in the quarterfinals. Del Potro then upset Murray in straight sets to advance to the semifinals, where he faced Rafael Nadal.

In a repeat of their 2009 Wimbledon semifinal matchup, del Potro again prevailed in five sets, coming back from a two-set deficit to win 3–6, 6–7^(5–7), 6–3, 6–2, 6–3 and become the first Argentine tennis player to medal in singles since Guillermo Vilas won bronze in 1980. This victory also avenged his losses to Nadal at both Wimbledon and the French Open earlier that year. With this victory, he became only the second man ever to defeat both Murray and Nadal at an Olympic Games, after fellow Argentine Olympian Guillermo Coria did so at Athens 2004. In the final, del Potro defeated Japan’s Kei Nishikori to win the gold medal 6–4, 7–6^(7–4), becoming an Olympic champion for the first time and denying Nishikori a second consecutive silver medal. This was also Argentina’s first gold medal in men’s tennis singles since 1948.

His career highlights

Juan Martin del Potro is an Argentine professional tennis player who has won one Olympic gold medal and four ATP Tour titles. He is currently ranked world No. 74 in the ATP singles rankings. Del Potro achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 4 in January 2010.

Del Potro’s biggest success came at the 2009 US Open, where he defeated five-time defending champion Roger Federer in the semifinals and then world No. 3 Rafael Nadal in the final, thus winning his maiden Grand Slam trophy. The victory made del Potro the first man from Argentina to win a Grand Slam tournament since Guillermo Vilas accomplished the feat at the 1977 French Open, and only the second Argentine after Vilas to win a major singles title.

In 2019, del Potro was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.