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Singles, Women

Date24 – 31 July 2021
StatusOlympic
LocationAriake Tennis Forest Park, Ariake, Koto, Tokyo, Japan
Participants64 from 32 countries
FormatSingle-elimination tournament.

For the first time since 1996 the Olympic tennis tournament took place without at least one of the Williams sisters in the field. The clear favourites were the top two seeds Ash Barty and the local favourite Naomi Osaka, who had the honour of lighting the Olympic Flame at the 2020 opening ceremony.

America’s 11th seed Jennifer Brady was eliminated in the first round, but the shock of the opening round was the defeat of top seed Barty by Spain’s Sara Sorribes, ranked 48th in the world. Osaka followed Barty out of the competition two rounds later when beaten by the unseeded Markéta Vondroušová. The highest ranked player left in the semi-finals was Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina (No.4), but she was beaten by Vondroušová and, in the other semi, Switzerland’s Belinda Bencic beat Yelena Rybakina of Kazakhstan.

In the bronze medal match, fourth seed Elina Svitolina beat Rybakina, and won Ukraine’s first ever Olympic tennis medal. At one stage Svitolina was a set down and 1-3 down in the second set before staging a comeback. In the third and final set, Svitolina was 1-4 down, before winning the next five games in a row to win 6-4. On her Games début at the age of 24, Belinda Bencic beat Markéta Vondroušová in three sets to become the first Swiss woman to win an Olympic tennis gold.

PosCompetitorNOC
1Belinda BencicSUIGold
2Markéta VondroušováCZESilver
3Elina SvitolinaUKRBronze
4Yelena RybakinaKAZ
=5Paula BadosaESP
=5Camila GiorgiITA
=5Garbiñe MuguruzaESP
=5Anastasiya PavlyuchenkovaROC
=9Barbora KrejčíkováCZE
=9Naomi OsakaJPN
=9Karolína PlíškováCZE
=9Nadia PodoroskaARG
=9Maria SakkariGRE
=9Sara SorribesESP
=9Donna VekićCRO
=9Alison Van UytvanckBEL
=17Yekaterina AleksandrovaROC
=17Mihaela BuzărnescuROU
=17Misaki DoiJPN
=17Leylah FernandezCAN
=17Fiona FerroFRA
=17Anna-Lena FriedsamGER
=17Viktorija GolubicSUI
=17Petra KvitováCZE
=17Rebecca PetersonSWE
=17Aryna SabalenkaBLR
=17Nina StojanovićSRB
=17Carla SuárezESP
=17Iga ŚwiątekPOL
=17Ajla TomljanovicAUS
=17Yelena VesninaROC
=17Wang QiangCHN
=33Mona BarthelGER
=33Ash BartyAUS
=33Kiki BertensNED
=33Jennifer BradyUSA
=33Verónica CepedePAR
=33Alizé CornetFRA
=33Zarina DiyasKAZ
=33Sara ErraniITA
=33Caroline GarciaFRA
=33Nao HibinoJPN
=33Ons JabeurTUN
=33Ivana JorovićSRB
=33Anett KontaveitEST
=33Veronika KudermetovaROC
=33Magda LinettePOL
=33Elise MertensBEL
=33Kristina MladenovicFRA
=33Camila OsorioCOL
=33Jeļena OstapenkoLAT
=33Jasmine PaoliniITA
=33Jessica PegulaUSA
=33Yuliya PutintsevaKAZ
=33Alison RiskeUSA
=33Anastasija SevastovaLAT
=33Maiar SherifEGY
=33Yaroslava ShvedovaKAZ
=33Laura SiegemundGER
=33Samantha StosurAUS
=33Heather WatsonGBR
=33Dayana YastremskaUKR
=33Renata ZarazúaMEX
=33Zheng SaisaiCHN

Round One

Date24 – 25 July 2021
FormatWinners advanced to round two.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorNOCResultCompetitorNOC
Match #1Sara SorribesESP2 – 0Ash BartyAUS
Match #2Fiona FerroFRA2 – 1Anastasija SevastovaLAT
Match #3Anna-Lena FriedsamGER2 – 0Heather WatsonGBR
Match #4Anastasiya PavlyuchenkovaROC2 – 0Sara ErraniITA
Match #5Belinda BencicSUI2 – 0Jessica PegulaUSA
Match #6Misaki DoiJPN2 – 0Renata ZarazúaMEX
Match #7Leylah FernandezCAN2 – 1Dayana YastremskaUKR
Match #8Barbora KrejčíkováCZE2 – 0Zarina DiyasKAZ
Match #9Aryna SabalenkaBLR2 – 0Magda LinettePOL
Match #10Donna VekićCRO2 – 1Caroline GarciaFRA
Match #11Rebecca PetersonSWE2 – 0Maiar SherifEGY
Match #12Yelena RybakinaKAZ2 – 0Samantha StosurAUS
Match #13Petra KvitováCZE2 – 0Jasmine PaoliniITA
Match #14Alison Van UytvanckBEL2 – 0Ivana JorovićSRB
Match #15Wang QiangCHN2 – 0Verónica CepedePAR
Match #16Garbiñe MuguruzaESP2 – 0Veronika KudermetovaROC
Match #17Karolína PlíškováCZE2 – 0Alizé CornetFRA
Match #18Carla SuárezESP2 – 0Ons JabeurTUN
Match #19Yelena VesninaROC2 – 1Jeļena OstapenkoLAT
Match #20Camila GiorgiITA2 – 0Jennifer BradyUSA
Match #21Maria SakkariGRE2 – 0Anett KontaveitEST
Match #22Nina StojanovićSRB2 – 0Nao HibinoJPN
Match #23Ajla TomljanovicAUS2 – 0Yaroslava ShvedovaKAZ
Match #24Elina SvitolinaUKR2 – 1Laura SiegemundGER
Match #25Iga ŚwiątekPOL2 – 0Mona BarthelGER
Match #26Paula BadosaESP2 – 1Kristina MladenovicFRA
Match #27Nadia PodoroskaARG2 – 0Yuliya PutintsevaKAZ
Match #28Yekaterina AleksandrovaROC2 – 1Elise MertensBEL
Match #29Markéta VondroušováCZE2 – 1Kiki BertensNED
Match #30Mihaela BuzărnescuROU2 – 1Alison RiskeUSA
Match #31Viktorija GolubicSUI2 – 0Camila OsorioCOL
Match #32Naomi OsakaJPN2 – 0Zheng SaisaiCHN

Round Two

Date26 July 2021
FormatWinners advanced to round three.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorNOCResultCompetitorNOC
Match #126 JulSara SorribesESP2 – 0Fiona FerroFRA
Match #226 JulAnastasiya PavlyuchenkovaROC2 – 0Anna-Lena FriedsamGER
Match #326 JulBelinda BencicSUI2 – 0Misaki DoiJPN
Match #426 JulBarbora KrejčíkováCZE2 – 0Leylah FernandezCAN
Match #526 JulDonna VekićCRO2 – 1Aryna SabalenkaBLR
Match #626 JulYelena RybakinaKAZ2 – 0Rebecca PetersonSWE
Match #726 JulAlison Van UytvanckBEL2 – 1Petra KvitováCZE
Match #826 JulGarbiñe MuguruzaESP2 – 0Wang QiangCHN
Match #926 JulKarolína PlíškováCZE2 – 1Carla SuárezESP
Match #1026 JulCamila GiorgiITA2 – 0Yelena VesninaROC
Match #1126 JulMaria SakkariGRE2 – 0Nina StojanovićSRB
Match #1226 JulElina SvitolinaUKR2 – 1Ajla TomljanovicAUS
Match #1326 JulPaula BadosaESP2 – 0Iga ŚwiątekPOL
Match #1426 JulNadia PodoroskaARG2 – 0Yekaterina AleksandrovaROC
Match #1526 JulMarkéta VondroušováCZE2 – 0Mihaela BuzărnescuROU
Match #1626 JulNaomi OsakaJPN2 – 0Viktorija GolubicSUI

Round Three

Date27 July 2021
FormatWinners advanced to quarter-finals.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorNOCResultCompetitorNOC
Match #127 JulAnastasiya PavlyuchenkovaROC2 – 0Sara SorribesESP
Match #227 JulBelinda BencicSUI2 – 1Barbora KrejčíkováCZE
Match #327 JulYelena RybakinaKAZ2 – 0Donna VekićCRO
Match #427 JulGarbiñe MuguruzaESP2 – 0Alison Van UytvanckBEL
Match #527 JulCamila GiorgiITA2 – 0Karolína PlíškováCZE
Match #627 JulElina SvitolinaUKR2 – 1Maria SakkariGRE
Match #727 JulPaula BadosaESP2 – 0Nadia PodoroskaARG
Match #827 JulMarkéta VondroušováCZE2 – 0Naomi OsakaJPN

Quarter-Finals

Date28 July 2021
FormatWinners advanced to semi-finals.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorNOCResultCompetitorNOC
Match #128 JulBelinda BencicSUI2 – 1Anastasiya PavlyuchenkovaROC
Match #228 JulYelena RybakinaKAZ2 – 0Garbiñe MuguruzaESP
Match #328 JulElina SvitolinaUKR2 – 0Camila GiorgiITA
Match #428 JulMarkéta VondroušováCZE2 – 0Paula BadosaESP

Semi-Finals

Date29 July 2021
FormatWinners advanced to the final round.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorNOCResultCompetitorNOC
Match #129 JulBelinda BencicSUI2 – 1Yelena RybakinaKAZ
Match #229 JulMarkéta VondroušováCZE2 – 0Elina SvitolinaUKR

Final Round

Date31 July 2021
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorNOCResultCompetitorNOC
Match 1/231 JulBelinda BencicSUI2 – 1Markéta VondroušováCZE
Match 3/431 JulElina SvitolinaUKR2 – 1Yelena RybakinaKAZ