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Singles, Women

Date28 July – 5 August 2012
StatusOlympic
LocationAll-England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club, Wimbledon, London
Participants64 from 33 countries
FormatSingle-elimination tournament.

17 years after she made her LTA tour debut Serena Williams had won every major honour in the sport except one – an Olympic singles title. At the London Olympic she removed this one blemish on her career record with a virtuoso performance of power tennis that never gave any of her opponents even a vague glimpse of a victory. Despite playing four of her six matches against women who had topped the world rankings at some point during their careers, she dropped just 17 games on her way to the gold medal. After defeating current world number 1 Viktoriya Azarenko 6-1 6-2 in the semi-final Williams humiliated Mariya Sharapova in the gold medal match to the point where the biggest cheer of the day came when the Russian won her one and only game in a 6-0 6-1 defeat.

The American became only the second female player, after Steffi Graf, to win a golden slam of all 4 major championships and the Olympic title in singles play and the only player of either sex to do so in both singles and doubles.

PosNrPlayerNOC
1–Serena WilliamsUSAGold
2–Mariya SharapovaRUSSilver
3–Vika AzarenkaBLRBronze
4–Mariya KirilenkoRUS
=5–Angelique KerberGER
=5–Caroline WozniackiDEN
=5–Kim ClijstersBEL
=5–Petra KvitováCZE
=9–Nadiya PetrovaRUS
=9–Venus WilliamsUSA
=9–Vera ZvonaryovaRUS
=9–Daniela HantuchováSVK
=9–Ana IvanovićSRB
=9–Sabine LisickiGER
=9–Flavia PennettaITA
=9–Julia GörgesGER
=17–María MartínezESP
=17–Ana T'at'ishviliGEO
=17–Aleksandra WozniakCAN
=17–Tímea BabosHUN
=17–Urszula RadwańskaPOL
=17–Francesca SchiavoneITA
=17–Alizé CornetFRA
=17–Yanina WickmayerBEL
=17–Carla SuárezESP
=17–Elena BaltachaGBR
=17–Yaroslava ShvedovaKAZ
=17–Laura RobsonGBR
=17–Peng ShuaiCHN
=17–Tsvetana PironkovaBUL
=17–Heather WatsonGBR
=17–Varvara LepchenkoUSA
=33–Irina BeguROU
=33–Polona HercogSLO
=33–Stephanie VogtLIE
=33–Zheng JieCHN
=33–Sara ErraniITA
=33–Marina ErakovicNZL
=33–Galina VoskoboyevaKAZ
=33–Petra CetkovskáCZE
=33–Jelena JankovićSRB
=33–Mona BarthelGER
=33–Klára ZakopalováCZE
=33–Sofia ArvidssonSWE
=33–Li NaCHN
=33–Tamira PaszekAUT
=33–Anabel MedinaESP
=33–Anne KeothavongGBR
=33–Samantha StosurAUS
=33–Roberta VinciITA
=33–Ágnes SzávayHUN
=33–Christina McHaleUSA
=33–Ons JabeurTUN
=33–Simona HalepROU
=33–Lucie ŠafářováCZE
=33–Shahar Pe'erISR
=33–Kateryna BondarenkoUKR
=33–Hsieh Su-WeiTPE
=33–Sorana CîrsteaROU
=33–Dominika CibulkováSVK
=33–Mariana DuqueCOL
=33–Silvia SolerESP
=33–Verónica CepedePAR
=33–Agnieszka RadwańskaPOL
DNS–Petra MartićCRO1

Round One (—)

Winners advanced to round two.

Match #1 2Vika AzarenkaBLR 1Irina BeguROU 6-1, 3-6, 6-1
Match #2 María MartínezESP Polona HercogSLO 6-2, 6-4
Match #3 Ana T'at'ishviliGEO ITFStephanie VogtLIE WC6-2, 6-0
Match #4 Nadiya PetrovaRUS 16Zheng JieCHN 6-4, 7-6
Match #5 3Venus WilliamsUSA Sara ErraniITA 96-3, 6-1
Match #6 Aleksandra WozniakCAN Marina ErakovicNZL 6-2, 6-1
Match #7 Tímea BabosHUN Galina VoskoboyevaKAZ 6-4, 6-2
Match #8 4Angelique KerberGER 7Petra CetkovskáCZE 6-1, 3-0
Match #9 Serena WilliamsUSA 4Jelena JankovićSRB 6-3, 6-1
Match #10 Urszula RadwańskaPOL Mona BarthelGER 6-4, 6-3
Match #11 Francesca SchiavoneITA Klára ZakopalováCZE 6-3, 3-6, 6-4
Match #12 Vera ZvonaryovaRUS 13Sofia ArvidssonSWE 7-6, 6-4
Match #13 Daniela HantuchováSVK Li NaCHN 106-2, 3-6, 6-3
Match #14 Alizé CornetFRA ITFTamira PaszekAUT 7-6, 6-4
Match #15 Yanina WickmayerBEL Anabel MedinaESP 6-2, 4-6, 7-5
Match #16 Caroline WozniackiDEN 8Anne KeothavongGBR ITF4-6, 6-3, 6-2
Match #17 Carla SuárezESP Samantha StosurAUS 53-6, 7-5, 10-8
Match #18 Kim ClijstersBEL Roberta VinciITA 6-1, 6-4
Match #19 Elena BaltachaGBR ITFÁgnes SzávayHUN 6-3, 6-3
Match #20 Ana IvanovićSRB 11Christina McHaleUSA 6-4, 7-5
Match #21 Sabine LisickiGER 15Ons JabeurTUN ITF4-6, 6-0, 7-5
Match #22 Yaroslava ShvedovaKAZ Simona HalepROU 6-4, 6-2
Match #23 Laura RobsonGBR ALucie ŠafářováCZE 7-6, 6-4
Match #24 Mariya SharapovaRUS 3Shahar Pe'erISR 6-2, 6-0
Match #25 Petra KvitováCZE Kateryna BondarenkoUKR 6-4, 5-7, 6-4
Match #26 Peng ShuaiCHN Hsieh Su-WeiTPE 6-3, 6-7, 7-5
Match #27 Flavia PennettaITA Sorana CîrsteaROU 6-2, 4-6, 6-2
Match #28 Tsvetana PironkovaBUL Dominika CibulkováSVK 127-6, 6-2
Match #29 5Mariya KirilenkoRUS 13Mariana DuqueCOL ITF6-0, 1-1
Match #30 6Heather WatsonGBR ASilvia SolerESP 6-2, 6-2
Match #31 Varvara LepchenkoUSA Verónica CepedePAR WC7-5, 6-7, 6-2
Match #32 Julia GörgesGER Agnieszka RadwańskaPOL 27-5, 6-7, 6-4

Round Two (—)

Winners advanced to round three.

Match #1 Vika AzarenkaBLR 1María MartínezESP 6-1, 6-2
Match #2 Nadiya PetrovaRUS 16Ana T'at'ishviliGEO ITF6-3, 6-7, 6-2
Match #3 Venus WilliamsUSA Aleksandra WozniakCAN 6-1, 6-3
Match #4 Angelique KerberGER 7Tímea BabosHUN 6-1, 6-1
Match #5 Serena WilliamsUSA 4Urszula RadwańskaPOL 6-2, 6-3
Match #6 Vera ZvonaryovaRUS 13Francesca SchiavoneITA 6-3, 6-3
Match #7 Daniela HantuchováSVK Alizé CornetFRA ITF6-3, 6-0
Match #8 Caroline WozniackiDEN 8Yanina WickmayerBEL 6-4, 3-6, 6-3
Match #9 Kim ClijstersBEL Carla SuárezESP 6-3, 6-3
Match #10 Ana IvanovićSRB 11Elena BaltachaGBR ITF6-4, 7-6
Match #11 Sabine LisickiGER 15Yaroslava ShvedovaKAZ 4-6, 6-3, 7-5
Match #12 Mariya SharapovaRUS 3Laura RobsonGBR A7-6, 6-3
Match #13 Petra KvitováCZE Peng ShuaiCHN 7-5, 2-6, 6-1
Match #14 Flavia PennettaITA Tsvetana PironkovaBUL 7-5, 6-1
Match #15 Mariya KirilenkoRUS 13Heather WatsonGBR A6-3, 6-2
Match #16 Julia GörgesGER Varvara LepchenkoUSA 6-3, 7-5

Round Three (—)

Winners advanced to quarter-finals.

Match #1 Vika AzarenkaBLR 1Nadiya PetrovaRUS 167-6, 6-4
Match #2 Angelique KerberGER 7Venus WilliamsUSA 7-6, 7-6
Match #3 Serena WilliamsUSA 4Vera ZvonaryovaRUS 136-1, 6-0
Match #4 Caroline WozniackiDEN 8Daniela HantuchováSVK 6-4, 6-2
Match #5 Kim ClijstersBEL Ana IvanovićSRB 116-3, 6-4
Match #6 Mariya SharapovaRUS 3Sabine LisickiGER 156-7, 6-4, 6-3
Match #7 Petra KvitováCZE Flavia PennettaITA 6-3, 6-0
Match #8 Mariya KirilenkoRUS 13Julia GörgesGER 7-6, 6-3

Quarter-Finals (—)

Winners advanced to semi-finals.

Match #1 Vika AzarenkaBLR 1Angelique KerberGER 76-4, 7-5
Match #2 Serena WilliamsUSA 4Caroline WozniackiDEN 86-0, 6-3
Match #3 Mariya SharapovaRUS 3Kim ClijstersBEL 6-2, 7-5
Match #4 Mariya KirilenkoRUS 13Petra KvitováCZE 7-6, 6-3

Semi-Finals (—)

Winners advanced to final round.

Match #1 Serena WilliamsUSA 4Vika AzarenkaBLR 16-1, 6-2
Match #2 Mariya SharapovaRUS 3Mariya KirilenkoRUS 136-2, 6-3

Final Round (—)

Match 1/2 Serena WilliamsUSA 4Mariya SharapovaRUS 36-0, 6-1
Match 3/4 Vika AzarenkaBLR 1Mariya KirilenkoRUS 136-3, 6-4