Olympic Tennis Winners

Coming round only once every four years no one can deny that the Olympic games is a truly special sporting event and the Olympics Tennis Event 2008 hosted by Beijing was undoubtedly highly successful.

Spain's Rafael Nadal continued his habit of winning just about anything of note he enters these days by deservedly winning the Olympic gold in the Men's singles tournament by beating Fernando Gonzalez 6-3, 7-6, 6-3 in two hours and 22 minutes so if Nadal who will start the US Open as World number one wins that particular tournament to add to this triumph as well as the French Open and Wimbledon his year will have surpassed his wildest expectations.

In the Women's game another epic match saw Elena Dementieva beat her compatriot Safina Dinara coming back from a set down to win 3-6, 7-5, 6-3 in 2 hours and 34 minutes this was the second career Olympic medal for Dementieva who had won silver eight years ago in Sydney losing to Venus Williams in the final.

After both missing out in the singles quarter-finals the powerful Williams sisters were always going to make their mark somehow and took Olympic gold in the women's doubles with a dominant display to beat Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual 6-2, 6-0.

After having a difficult time in recent months it was nice to see Roger Federer win a gold medal along with Stanislas Wawrinka in the Men's doubles beating Simon Aspelin and Thomas Johansson 6-3, 6-4, 6-7, 6-3 which finally gives Federer a medal at the third attempt.

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