:Tennis at the 1908 Summer Olympics

{{short description|Tennis at the Olympics}}

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{{Infobox tennis tournament year|1908|Summer Olympics|

| date = 6–11 May 1908 (indoor)
6-11 July 1908 (outdoor)

| edition = 4th

| surface = Wood (indoor)
Grass (outdoor)

| multi = yes

| quadrennial = yes

| location = Queen's Club, West Kensington (indoor)
All England Club, Wimbledon (outdoor)

| champmos= {{flagIOCathlete|Major Ritchie|GBR|1908 Summer}}

| champwos= {{flagIOCathlete|Dorothea Lambert Chambers|GBR|1908 Summer}}

| champmod= {{flagIOCathlete|Reginald Doherty / George Hillyard|GBR|1908 Summer}}

| champmis= {{flagIOCathlete|Arthur Gore|GBR|1908 Summer}}

| champwis= {{flagIOCathlete|Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith|GBR|1908 Summer}}

| champmid= {{nowrap|{{flagIOCathlete|Herbert Roper Barrett / Arthur Gore|GBR|1908 Summer}}}}

}}

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Six tennis events were contested at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1908/TEN/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417050320/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1908/TEN/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Tennis at the 1908 London Summer Games |access-date=29 January 2014 |work=sports-reference.com}}

Indoor tennis events, on what were officially called 'covered courts', were held for the first time, along with the usual outdoor events. Women's events were contested, with women's singles (but not women's doubles or mixed doubles) and indoor women's singles. The indoor events were held at the covered courts of the Queen's Club and began on 6 May 1908, ahead of the official start of the Games while the outdoor tournament was played on grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club at Worple Road from 6 July through 11 July 1908. In total 50 players, 40 men and 10 women, competed. Five nations made their tennis debuts, while five more returned to competition for a total of ten nations. Two players, Les Poidevin and Wimbledon champion Anthony Wilding were nominated for Australasia but through administrative bungling they were not entered.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/games/5/sports/TEN |title=Tennis at the 1908 Summer Olympics |work=Olympedia |access-date=11 July 2020}}

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