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

Women's singles tennis at the Games of the IV Olympiad
Venue	All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club
Dates	7 July (round 1) 9 July (quarterfinal) 10 July (semifinal) 11 July (final)
Competitors	13 from 4 nations
Medalists
Dorothea Lambert Chambers  Great Britain Dora Boothby  Great Britain Ruth Winch  Great Britain

Tennis at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Outdoor
Singles	men	women
Doubles	men
Indoor
Singles	men	women
Doubles	men

Official 1908 Highlight Film Women's Singles Tennis @ 1:19

Final of the Women's singles event between Dorothea Lambert Chambers and Dora Boothby

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

The number of withdrawals resulted in empty brackets, with one player making it to the final without playing a single match while another had to win two to advance to that point.

Draw

Draw

First Round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final (Gold medal match)

D Lambert Chambers (GBR)

6

6

A Morton (GBR)

8

6

A Morton (GBR)

2

3

A Greene (GBR)

6

2

D Lambert Chambers (GBR)

6

6

K Cséry (HUN)

R Winch (GBR)

1

1

F Pietrzykowski (AUT)

w/o

K Cséry (HUN)

w/o

R Winch (GBR)

R Winch (GBR)

E Mattuch (AUT)

w/o

D Lambert Chambers (GBR)

6

7

K Fenwick (FRA)

D Boothby (GBR)

1

5

M Amende (AUT)

w/o

K Fenwick (FRA)

C Sterry (GBR)

C Sterry (GBR)

w/o

M Madarász (HUN)

w/o

C Fenwick (FRA)

w/o

D Boothby (GBR)

B Hillyard (GBR)

w/o

D Boothby (GBR)

Boothby took the silver medal, and Winch the bronze, without either winning a single set. Chambers played three matches, winning all six sets. Morton was the only other player to win a match, defeating Greene in the first round before losing to Chambers in the quarterfinals.

External links

• 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