Tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics - Women's doubles
| Tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics | |
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| Date | 6–14 August |
| Edition | 17th |
| Surface | Hard (GreenSet Grand Prix Cushion) |
| Location | Olympic Tennis Centre |
| Champions | |
| Men's Singles | |
 Andy Murray (GBR)
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| Women's Singles | |
 Monica Puig (PUR)
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| Men's Doubles | |
 Marc López & Rafael Nadal (ESP)
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| Women's Doubles | |
 Ekaterina Makarova & Elena Vesnina (RUS) |
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| Mixed Doubles | |
 Bethanie Mattek-Sands & Jack Sock (USA)
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The tennis tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics was held at the Olympic Tennis Centre, from 6 to 14 August. The competition was played on a fast hardcourt surface used in numerous North American tournaments that aims to minimize disruption for players.
Initially a total of 172 players were expected to compete in five events: singles and doubles for both men and women and the return of the mixed doubles for the second consecutive time. However, eventually 105 male and 94 female players were granted places in the draws. The Olympic tennis events were run and organized by the Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) and the International Tennis Federation (ITF), and were part of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) and Women's Tennis Association (WTA) tours.
The 2016 Olympic tournament was the fifteenth edition of tennis at the Olympics (excluding the two Olympics, 1968 and 1984, when tennis was a demonstration event), and the eighth since 1988, when the sport was officially brought back into the Games. Unlike previous editions of the Olympic event, it was decided that the Olympic tournaments would not offer ATP and WTA ranking points for the players.
Serena Williams was the defending champion in the women's singles, but she lost to Elina Svitolina in the third round. Unseeded Puerto Rican Monica Puig won the gold medal, defeating Germany's world number two Angelique Kerber in the final, 6–4, 4–6, 6–1. This marked Puerto Rico's first ever Olympic gold medal and made Puig her country's first ever female medalist.
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