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When are Andy Murray, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic playing at the Olympics? Dates, start time and format
07/25/2024 06:46 AM
Andy Murray, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic are all playing at the 2024 Olympic Games tennis tournament in Paris, but when can you watch them?
Read on for the date, start time, fixtures, teams, format and schedule as the Big Three stars fight for gold – with Wimbledon winner Carlos Alcaraz also in action – although there is no world No.1 Jannik Sinner after he pulled out over tonsillitis.
British sporting icon Murray, 37, was hoping for a third gold medal in singles before he withdrew on Thursday to focus on the men’s doubles with Dan Evans.
Murray will retire from tennis after the Olympics while Nadal, 38, is also featuring in the men’s doubles and is representing Spain next to SW19 champion Alcaraz.
Unlike Murray, Nadal is playing singles and could potentially face Djokovic, 37, in a blockbuster second-round clash after the draw was made on Thursday.
Djokovic is the only Big Three star to have never won a gold medal and he is desperate to secure one for Serbia in what is almost certain to be his last chance to do so given his age. It is also assumed that Nadal is playing his last Olympics.
Here’s absolutely everything you need to know about the Olympic tennis tournament and how you can watch Murray, Nadal and Djokovic in action…
When is Andy Murray playing at the Olympic Games in Paris?
The Olympic tennis schedule is packed into one week – running from July 27 to August 4.
Andy Murray is set to retire from tennis after the Olympic Games in Paris and is only solely playing in the men’s doubles with his British compatriot Dan Evans.
The draw was made on Thursday, July 25 with Murray and Evans set to face Japan’s Taro Daniel and Kei Nishikori in their first-round doubles match.
Should they win that clash, Murray and Evans would then take on Belgian duo Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen or French pair Arthur Fils and Ugo Humbert.
The first-round men’s doubles matches will be played on Saturday, July 27 and Sunday, July 28 – and like the singles – they will take place from 11am or 6pm UK time.
Who is representing Great Britain in Olympic tennis?
Men’s Singles: Cameron Norrie, Jack Draper, Dan Evans
Women’s Singles: Katie Boulter
Men’s Doubles: Joe Salisbury & Neal Skupski, Dan Evans & Andy Murray
Women’s Doubles: Katie Boulter & Heather Watson
Mixed Doubles: Joe Salisbury & Heather Watson
When is Rafael Nadal playing at the Olympic Games in Paris?
It is almost certain Rafael Nadal is playing at the Olympics for the last time before his retirement from professional men’s tennis.
Nadal was recently being named on the US Open entry list and has delayed plans to hang up his racket – but he’ll surely be too old to feature at Los Angeles 2028.
How many tennis players are featuring at the Olympics?
There are 64 players in both the men’s singles and women’s singles draws.
The men's and women's doubles will each be 32 teams – and mixed doubles will be 16 teams.
Nadal is playing men’s singles and men’s doubles. The King of Clay’s first-round matches will be played on Saturday, July 27 or Sunday, July 28 from 11am or 6pm UK time.
Nadal faces Marton Fucsovics in his opening singles match and then would be projected to face Novak Djokovic in a colossal second-round showdown.
What is the start date for the Olympic tennis and when will the finals be played in singles and doubles?
Men’s singles: Saturday, July 27 – Sunday, August 4
Men’s doubles: Saturday, July 27 – Saturday, August 3
Women’s singles: Saturday, July 27 – Saturday, August 3
Women’s doubles: Saturday, July 27 – Sunday, August 4
Mixed doubles: Monday, July 29 – Friday, August 2
In the men’s doubles, Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz get started against Argentine team Andres Molteni and Maximo Gonzalez in their first match.
‘I am very excited to be in my first Games and to be with Rafa,’ Alcaraz said. ‘We are going to give our best. I have less experience and I hope to be able to adapt quickly to playing doubles. I like to play it, but due to individual issues I have never been able to. I can learn everything from Rafa.’
Rafael Nadal's path to the gold medal match
Rafa Nadal's potential path to winning a singles medal at the Paris Olympics:
- Round 1 – Fucsovics
- Round 2 – Djokovic
- Round 3 – Fils
- Quarter-final – Tsitsipas / Baez
- Semi-final – Zverev / Musetti / Fritz
- Final – Alcaraz / Medvedev / Ruud
When is Novak Djokovic playing at the Olympic Games in Paris?
Novak Djokovic bagged Serbia’s first Olympic tennis medal in 2008 when he clinched bronze but he hasn’t landed once since and is very much craving gold.
The 24-time Grand Slam champion is only playing in singles and decided not to enter the doubles tournament after his recent heartbreaking Wimbledon defeat.
Djokovic’s first-round match in the Olympic tennis singles will take place on Saturday, July 27 or Sunday, July 28 from 11am or 6pm UK time.
He faces Australia’s Matthew Ebden in his opener and then could be set to lock horns with his fellow Big Three tennis legend Rafael Nadal.
Novak Djokovic's path to the gold medal match
Novak Djokovic's possible path to landing a singles medal at the Paris Olympics:
- Round 1 – Ebden
- Round 2 – Nadal
- Round 3 – Fils
- Quarter-final – Tsitsipas / Baez
- Semi-final – Zverev / Musetti / Fritz
- Final – Alcaraz / Medvedev / Ruud
What is the full schedule for the Olympic tennis tournament?
Here is the full schedule for the Olympic tennis tournament, which is being played on the Paris clay, usually home to the iconic French Open.
- Saturday, July 27: Men's and women's singles first round, men's and women's doubles first round
- Sunday, July 28: Men's and women's singles first round, men's and women's doubles first round
- Monday, July 29: Men's and women's singles second round, men's and women's doubles second round, mixed doubles first round
- Tuesday, July 30: Men's singles second round, women's singles third round, men's doubles quarter-finals, women's doubles second round and quarter-finals, mixed doubles first round
- Wednesday, July 31: Men's singles third round, women's singles quarter-finals, men's doubles semi-finals, women's doubles quarter-finals, mixed doubles quarter-finals
- Thursday, August 1: Men's singles quarter-finals, women's singles semi-finals, women's doubles semi-finals, mixed doubles semi-finals
- Friday, August 2: Men's singles semi-finals, women's singles bronze medal match, men's doubles bronze medal match, mixed doubles bronze medal match, mixed doubles final
- Saturday, August 3: Women’s singles final, men's singles bronze medal match, men's doubles final
- Sunday, August 4: Men’s singles final, women's doubles bronze medal match, women's doubles final
Who is competing as a Individual Neutral Athlete?
Russian and Belarusian tennis players will compete under the International Olympic Committee (IOC) flag.
This includes recent Wimbledon semi-finalist Daniil Medvedev, with the International Tennis Federation (ITF) confirming their stance in a June statement.
‘The International Olympic Committee and International Paralympic Committee will allow qualified and eligible athletes with Russian and Belarusian passports to compete in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games as Individual Neutral Athletes ("AIN") and Paralympic Games as Neutral Paralympic Athletes ("NPA"),’ the ITF said.
‘The ITF confirms that tennis players from these nations will be allowed to enter the Olympic and Paralympic tennis competitions in an individual and neutral capacity if they comply with the IOC's AIN and the IPC's NPA principles. Neutral athletes will need to meet the selection and eligibility requirements as set out in the applicable ITF Regulations.’
Full list of Olympic doubles teams for the tennis tournament in Paris
There will be 32 teams in the both men's and women's doubles at the Olympic Games in Paris, with 16 in the mixed doubles.
The mixed doubles pairings were revealed on Wednesday, July 24.
Men’s doubles
- Francisco Cerundolo & Tomas Martin Etcheverry (Argentina)
- Maximo Gonzalez & Andres Molteni (Argentina)
- Alex de Minaur & Alexei Popyrin (Australia)
- Matthew Ebden & John Peers (Australia)
- Joran Vliegen & Sander Gille (Belgium)
- Thiago Seyboth Wild & Thiago Monteiro (Brazil)
- Felix Auger-Aliassime & Milos Raonic (Canada)
- Nicolas Jarry & Alejandro Tabilo (Chile)
- Nikola Mektic & Mate Pavic (Croatia)
- Tomas Machac & Adam Pavlasek (Czech Republic)
- Ugo Humbert & Arthur Fils (France)
- Edouard Roger-Vasselin & Fabien Reboul (France)
- Jan Lennard-Struff & Dominik Koepfer (Germany)
- Kevin Krawietz & Tim Puetz (Germany)
- Dan Evans & Andy Murray (Great Britain)
- Neal Skupski & Joe Salisbury (Great Britain)
- Stefanos Tsitsipas & Petros Tsitsipas (Greece)
- Fabian Marozsan & Marton Fucsovics (Hungary)
- Rohan Bopanna & Sririam Balaji (India)
- Daniil Medvedev & Roman Safiullin (Neutral athletes)
Jannik Sinner& Lorenzo Musetti (Italy)- Andrea Vavassori & Simone Bolelli (Italy)
- Alexander Bublik & Aleksandr Nedovyesov (Kazakhstan)
- Benjamin Hassan & Hady Habib (Lebanon)
- Tallon Griekspoor & Wesley Koolhof (Netherlands)
- Jean-Julien Rojer & Robin Haase (Netherlands)
Hubert Hurkacz& Jan Zielinski (Poland)- Nuno Borges & Francisco Cabral (Portugal)
- Carlos Alcaraz & Rafael Nadal (Spain)
- Pablo Carreno Busta & Marcel Granollers (Spain)
- Taylor Fritz & Tommy Paul (USA)
- Rajeev Ram & Austin Krajicek (USA)
Women’s doubles
- Nadia Podoroska & Maria Lourdes Carle (Argentina)
- Ajla Tomljanovic & Olivia Gadecki (Australia)
- Ellen Perez & Daria Saville (Australia)
- Beatriz Haddad Maia & Luisa Stefani (Brazil)
- Leylah Fernandez & Gabriela Dabrowski (Canada)
- Yue Yuan & Shuai Zhang (China)
- Xinyu Wang & Saisai Zheng (China)
- Su-Wei Hsieh & Chia Yi Tsai (Chinese Taipei)
- Hao-Ching Chan & Latisha Chan (Chinese Taipei)
Marketa Vondrousova& Karolina Muchova (Czech Republic)- Barbora Krejcikova & Katerina Siniakova (Czech Republic)
- Caroline Garcia & Diane Parry (France)
- Clara Burel & Varvara Gracheva (France)
- Angelque Kerber & Laura Siegemund (Germany)
- Tatjana Maria & Tamara Korpatsch (Germany)
- Katie Boulter & Heather Watson (Great Britain)
- Maria Sakkari & Despina Papamichail (Greece)
- Ekaterina Alexandrova & Elena Vesina (Neutral athletes)
- Mirra Andreeva & Diana Shnaider (Neutral athletes)
- Jasmine Paolini & Sara Errani (Italy)
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto & Lucia Bronzetti (Italy)
- Ena Shibahara & Shuko Aoyama (Japan)
- Arantxa Rus & Demi Schuurs (Netherlands)
- Erin Routliffe & Lulu Sun (New Zealand)
- Magda Linette & Alicja Rosolska (Poland)
- Ana Bogdan & Jaqueline Adina Cristian (Romania)
- Irina-Camelia Begu & Monica Niculescu (Romania)
- Sara Sorribes Tormo & Cristina Bucsa (Spain)
- Marta Kostyuk & Dayana Yastremska (Ukraine)
- Lyudmyla Kichenok & Nadiia Kichenok (Ukraine)
- Coco Gauff & Jessica Pegula (USA)
- Danielle Collins & Desirae Krawczyk (USA)
Mixed doubles
- Laura Siegemund & Alexander Zverev (Germany) [1]
- Coco Gauff & Taylor Fritz (USA) [2]
- Ellen Perez & Matthew Ebden (Australia) [3]
- Maria Sakkari & Stefanos Tsitsipas (Greece) [4]
- Gabriela Dabrowski & Felix Auger-Aliassime (Canada)
- Sara Errani & Andrea Vavassori (Italy)
- Sara Sorribes Tormo & Marcel Granollers (Spain)
- Elena Rybakina & Alexander Bublik (Kazakhstan)
- Donna Vekic & Mate Pavic (Croatia)
- Caroline Garcia & Edouard Roger-Vasselin (France)
- Mirra Andreeva & Daniil Medvedev
- Zheng Qinwen & Zhang Zhizhen (China)
- Katerina Siniakova & Tomas Machac (Czech Republic)
- Demi Schuurs & Wesley Koolhof (Netherlands)
- Heather Watson & Joe Salisbury (Great Britain)
- Ena Shibahara & Kei Nishikori (Japan)