Tennis at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's doubles

Men's doubles tennis at the Games of the IV Olympiad
Venue	All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club
Dates	6 July (round 1) 7 July (round 2) 9 July (quarterfinals) 10 July (semifinal) 11 July (final)
Competitors	24 from 8 nations
Medalists
Great Britain Reginald Doherty, George Hillyard    Great Britain James Parke, Josiah Ritchie    Great Britain Clement Cazalet, Charles Dixon

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

The men's doubles (outdoor) was one of six lawn tennis events on the Tennis at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme.^[1]

Results

Standings

Place	Names	Nation
1st	George Hillyard Reginald Doherty	Great Britain
2nd	Josiah Ritchie James Parke	Great Britain
3rd	Clement Cazalet Charles Dixon	Great Britain
4th	Walter Crawley Kenneth Powell	Great Britain
	Vincent Gauntlett Harold Kitson	South Africa
	Felix Pipes Arthur Zborzil	Austria
7th	James Foulkes Robert Powell	Canada
	Christiaan van Lennep Roelof van Lennep	Netherlands
	Otto Froitzheim Heinrich Schomburgk	Germany
	Jenö Zsigmondy Ede Tóth	Hungary
11th	Bohuslav Hykš David Slíva	Bohemia
	Oscar Kreuzer Friedrich Wilhelm Rahe	Germany

Bracket

Finals

	Semifinals									Finals
	Hillyard / Doherty		5	2	6	17	6
	Cazalet / Dixon		7	6	4	15	4
										Hillyard / Doherty		9	7	9
										Ritchie / Parke		7	5	7
	Ritchie / Parke		w.o.
	Germot / Decugis

Earlier rounds

Top half

1st round									2nd round									Quarterfinals									Semifinals
																			Hillyard / Doherty	10	6	7	7
																			Crawley / K. Powell	8	1	9	5
										Crawley / K. Powell	7	6	6
										Foulkes / R. Powell	5	3	2
																												Hillyard / Doherty	5	2	6	17	6
																												Cazalet / Dixon	7	6	4	15	4
										Cazalet / Dixon	6	6	3	6
										C. van Lennep / R. van Lennep	4	0	6	2
																			Cazalet / Dixon	6	5	2	6	6
	Gauntlett / Kitson (RSA)	6	6	6															Gauntlett / Kitson (RSA)	2	7	6	3	3
	Hykš / Slíva	0	4	3						Gauntlett / Kitson (RSA)	3	6	7	3
	Froitzheim / Schomburgk	6	6	6						Froitzheim / Schomburgk	6	2	5	3
	Kreuzer / Rahe	1	3	3

Bottom half

1st round

2nd round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Ritchie / Parke

6

6

6

Zsigmondy / Tóth

1

0

3

Ritchie / Parke

7

6

6

Zborzil / Pipes

Zborzil & Pipes

5

4

2

Bye

Zborzil / Pipes

Bye

Ritchie / Parke

w.o.

Germot / Decugis

Germot / Decugis

Bye

Germot / Decugis

Bye

References

Sources

• Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association. 
• De Wael, Herman (2001). "Tennis 1908". Herman's Full Olympians. Retrieved 21 May 2006.