Tennis at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Women's indoor singles

Women's indoor singles tennis
at the Games of the IV Olympiad
Venue Queen's Club
Dates 6–11 May
Competitors 9 from 2 nations
Medalists
1st, gold medalist(s) Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith
 Great Britain
2nd, silver medalist(s) Alice Greene
 Great Britain
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Märtha Adlerstråhle
 Sweden

The indoor women's singles was one of six lawn tennis events on the Tennis at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme.

Draw

Key

Draw

First Round Quarterfinals Semifinals Final (Gold medal match)
 D Lambert Chambers (GBR) w/o
 M Adlerstråhle (SWE)
 M Adlerstråhle (SWE) 1 3
 A Greene (GBR) 6 6
 D Boothby (GBR) 2 2
 A Greene (GBR)  A Greene (GBR) 6 6
 R Winch (GBR) w/o  A Greene (GBR) 2 6 0
 G Eastlake-Smith (GBR) 6 4 6
 E Wallenberg (SWE) 11 4 4
 M Coles (GBR)[1] 9 6 5r
 E Wallenberg (SWE) 4 4 Bronze medal match
 G Eastlake-Smith (GBR) 6 6
 G Eastlake-Smith (GBR) 7 7  E Wallenberg (SWE) 6 2 3
 V Pinckney (GBR) 5 5  M Adlerstråhle (SWE) 1 6 6

References

  1. ↑ Cook, p. 222. Coles, with a lead of 5 games to 4 and 40-15 in the game in progress, was a single point from defeating Wallenberg when the Briton suffered an arm injury and could not continue play.
  • Cook, Theodore Andrea (May 1909). The Fourth Olympiad London 1908 Official Report (PDF). London: British Olympic Association. Retrieved 2008-05-08.
  • ITF, 2008 Olympic Tennis Event Media Guide
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