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![Tennis at the first Olympics](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/1896_Olympic_tennis.jpg/350px-1896_Olympic_tennis.jpg)
Credit: Jonel
Tennis was one of just seven sports contested at the Games of the I Olympiad, the first iteration of the Modern Olympics, held in Athens, Greece, in 1896, and provided 13 of the Games' 241 participating athletes; the tennis competition comprised a men's singles and a men's doubles event played across four days on grass surfaces at the Athens Lawn Tennis Club and Neo Phaliron Velodrome.