Final score 6–4, 6–4 Doubles men Start date 2016 | Singles men women mixed Venue Olympic Tennis Centre | |
Champions Ekaterina Makarova
Elena Vesnina Runners-up Timea Bacsinszky
Martina Hingis Location Olympic Tennis Centre, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | ||
The women's doubles tennis tournament at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro was held at the Olympic Tennis Centre in the Barra Olympic Park in Barra da Tijuca in the west zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 6–14 August 2016.
Serena and Venus Williams were the two-time defending champions and number one seeds, but they lost in the first round to Lucie Šafářová and Barbora Strýcová. The defeat ended the sisters' 15 match winning streak in women's doubles at the Olympics, and also marked their first loss together in Olympic competition.
Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina won the gold medal, defeating Timea Bacsinszky and Martina Hingis in the final, 6–4, 6–4.
References
Tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's Doubles Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA