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Women's doubles
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Champions
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Runners-up
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Score
| 6?4, 6?4
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2012 tennis event results
Women's doubles tennis
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
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Venue
| All England Club, Wimbledon
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Date
| 28 July to 5 August 2012
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Competitors
| 62 from 21 nations
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Defending gold medalists
Serena Williams
and
Venus Williams
of the
United States
successfully defended their title, defeating the
Czech Republic
's
Andrea Hlava?kova
and
Lucie Hradecka
in the final, 6?4, 6?4 to win the gold medal in Women's Doubles
tennis
at the
2012 Summer Olympics
. The
Williams sisters
did not drop a set en route to their third gold medal in doubles, becoming the first players in tennis history to win four Olympic gold medals, with the pairing also winning the doubles golds in
2000
and
2008
, and Venus winning the
2000 singles
and Serena winning the
2012 singles
events.
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In the bronze medal match,
Russia
's
Maria Kirilenko
and
Nadia Petrova
defeated the United States'
Liezel Huber
and
Lisa Raymond
, 4?6, 6?4, 6?1.
The tournament was held from 28 July to 5 August on the
grass courts
of the
All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club
in
Wimbledon, London
of the United Kingdom.
All matches were the best of three sets, with
tie-breaks
used for the first two sets of each match.
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Calendar
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August
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12:00
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12:00
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12:00
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Round of 32
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Round of 32
Round of 16
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Round of 16
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Round of 16
Quarterfinals
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Quarterfinals
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Semifinals
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Bronze medal match
Gold medal match
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Seeds
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The top
seeded
team received a
bye
into the second round.
Draw
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Finals
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Top half
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Bottom half
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References
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Women's Doubles Draw
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Grand Slam events
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WTA Premier Mandatory tournaments
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WTA Premier 5 tournaments
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WTA Premier tournaments
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- Brisbane
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- Sydney
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- Paris
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- Charleston
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- Brussels
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- Eastbourne
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- Stanford
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- Carlsbad
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- New Haven
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- Moscow
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WTA International tournaments
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- Auckland
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- Hobart
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- Pattaya City
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- Bogota
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- Memphis
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- Monterrey
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- Acapulco
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- Kuala Lumpur
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- Barcelona
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- Copenhagen
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- Fes
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- Budapest
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- Estoril
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- Strasbourg
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- Birmingham
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- 's-Hertogenbosch
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- Palermo
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- Bastad
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- Bad Gastein
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- Baku
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- Washington D.C.
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- Dallas
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- Tashkent
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- Quebec City
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- Seoul
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- Guangzhou
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- Linz
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- Osaka
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- Luxembourg City
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Team events
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