Tennis at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Women's outdoor singles

This was the second appearance of the women's singles tennis. A women's event was held only once during the first three Games (only men's tennis was played in 1896 and 1904), but has been held at every Olympics for which there was a tennis tournament since 1908. Tennis was not a medal sport from 1928 to 1984, though there were demonstration events in 1968 and 1984.{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/results/44309 |work=Olympedia |title=Singles, Women |access-date=14 July 2021}}

Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers had won at Wimbledon in 1903, 1904, and 1906. She would win four more times after the Games.

Great Britain was the only nation that had players actually compete, thereby making it the nation's second appearance. France would also have made its second appearance, and Austria and Hungary their debuts, but the players for those three nations all withdrew.

The competition was a single-elimination tournament. The withdrawals resulted in there being only one semifinal loser, so there was no bronze-medal match. All matches were best-of-three sets.

The Olympics started three days after the end of the 1908 Wimbledon Championships, a scheduling issue which the Official Report recommended avoiding in the future.Official Report, p. 209.

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Boothby took the silver medal, and Winch the bronze, without either winning a single set. Chambers played three matches, winning all six sets. Morton was the only other player to win a match, defeating Greene in the first round before losing to Chambers in the quarterfinals.

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{{Reflist}}

• {{cite book|author=Cook, Theodore Andrea |title=The Fourth Olympiad London 1908 Official Report |publisher=British Olympic Association |location=London |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1908/1908.pdf |format=PDF |access-date=2008-05-08 |date=May 1909 }}
• [http://www.itftennis.com/media/80351/80351.pdf ITF, 2008 Olympic Tennis Event Media Guide]

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