Russia's Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina defeated Switzerland's Timea Bacsinszky and Martina Hingis in the final, 6–4, 6–4 to win the gold medal in Women's Doubles tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics. In the bronze-medal match, the Czech Republic's Lucie Šafářová and Barbora Strýcová defeated compatriots Andrea Hlaváčková and Lucie Hradecká, 7–5, 6–1.
The tournament 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.
The United States' Serena Williams and Venus Williams were the two-time reigning gold medalists and top seeds, but they lost in the first round to Šafářová and Strýcová. The defeat ended the Williams sisters' 15 match winning streak in women's doubles at the Olympics, and marked their first loss together in Olympic competition.
Hingis attempted to complete the career Golden Slam; she was originally to partner with Belinda Bencic but eventually partnered with Bacsinszky instead after Bencic had withdrawn due to an ongoing wrist injury.
Schedule August6789101112131411:0011:0011:0011:00—12:0012:0012:0012:00Round of 32Round of 16play cancelled due to rainQuarterfinalsSemi-finalsBronze medal matchGold medal match
Seeds
/ (first round) / (first round) / (quarterfinals) / (quarterfinals) / (final, silver medalists) / (semifinals, fourth place) / (champions, gold medalists) / (quarterfinals)
Draw
Key
INV = Tripartite invitation IP = ITF place Alt = Alternate PR = Protected ranking w/o = Walkover r = Retired d = Defaulted
Finals
Top half
Bottom half
References
External links Women's Doubles Drawsheet Olympic Tennis Event Entry List