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{{Infobox Olympic event
|event = Men's doubles tennis
|games = 1908 Summer
|image = File:R.F.Doherty and G.F. Gillyard win the doubles against M.J.G.Ritchie and J.C.Parke.jpg
|caption = The final between Doherty/Gillyard and Ritchie/Parke
|venue = [[All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club]]
|dates = 6 July 1908 (round 1) <br> 7 July 1908 (round 2) <br> 9 July 1908 (quarterfinals) <br> 10 July 1908 (semifinal) <br> 11 July 1908 (final)
|competitors = 12 teams
|nations = 8
|longnames = yes
|gold = [[Reginald Doherty]] <br> [[George Hillyard]]
|goldNOC = GBR
|silver = [[James Cecil Parke]] <br> [[Major Ritchie]]
|silverNOC = GBR
|bronze = [[Clement Cazalet]] <br> [[Charles P. Dixon]]
|bronzeNOC = GBR
|prev = [[Tennis at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Men's doubles|1904]]
|next = [[Tennis at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's outdoor doubles|1912]]
}}
{{Infobox tennis tournament event|1908|Summer Olympics|
|type = olympics1908
|quadrennial = yes
|multi = yes
}}
The men's outdoor doubles' was one of six lawn [[tennis]] events on the [[Tennis at the 1908 Summer Olympics]] programme. Nations could enter up to 6 pairs (12 players).<ref name=OR35>Official Report, p. 35.</ref> The event was plagued by withdrawals, with only 12 teams competing of the 21 that entered. There were 24 players from 8 nations.<ref name=Olympedia/> The event was won by [[Reginald Doherty]] and [[George Hillyard]] after defeating [[James Cecil Parke]] and [[Major Ritchie]] in the final. [[Clement Cazalet]] and [[Charles P. Dixon]] took the bronze medal without a bronze-medal match due to the withdrawal of an entire quadrant of the bracket. All three medal pairs were British. It was the second medal sweep in the men's doubles, after the United States did it in 1904, and it was also the last time that the men's doubles gold medal match was contested by pairs representing the same nation until [[Tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's doubles|Tokyo 2021]]. Doherty became the first man to win multiple men's doubles medals and gold medals, having earned gold with his brother [[Laurence Doherty]] in 1900.
==Background==
This was the fourth appearance of the men's doubles tennis. The event has been held at every Summer Olympics where tennis has been on the program: from 1896 to 1924 and then from 1988 to the current program. A demonstration event was held in 1968. In 1908, for the first time of two, an indoor version was held concurrently. Teams of mixed nationality, which had been permitted in previous Games, were no longer allowed.
The British brothers [[Laurence Doherty]] and [[Reginald Doherty]] had been dominant for the late 1890s and early 1900s, winning the 1900 Olympic championship and eight consecutive Wimbledon titles. Laurence retired in 1906, however, leaving Reginald to search for other partners. He played with [[George Hillyard]], an accomplished player past his prime, for the 1908 Olympic tournament.<ref name=Olympedia>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/results/44260 |work=Olympedia |title=Doubles, Men |access-date=23 December 2020}}</ref> [[Arthur Gore (tennis)|Arthur Gore]] and [[Herbert Roper Barrett]], who had won the indoor doubles event, were among the most notable late scratches.<ref name=OR216>Official Report, p. 216.</ref>
Austria, Bohemia, Canada, Hungary, the Netherlands, and South Africa each made their debut in the event. Germany and Great Britain each made their third appearance in the event, tied for most among nations.
==Competition format==
The competition was a single-elimination tournament. A bronze-medal match was expected, but not played due to withdrawals.<ref name=OR217>Official Report, p. 217.</ref> All matches were best-of-five sets. Tiebreaks had not been invented yet.
==Schedule==
The Olympics started three days after the end of the [[1908 Wimbledon Championships]], a scheduling issue which the Official Report recommended avoiding in the future.<ref name=OR209>Official Report, p. 209.</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
! Date
! Time
! Round
|-
| Monday, 6 July 1908 || || '''Round of 32'''
|-
| Tuesday, 7 July 1908 || || '''Round of 16'''
|-
| Thursday, 9 July 1908 || || '''Quarterfinals'''
|-
| Friday, 10 July 1908 || || '''Semifinals'''
|- style=background:lemonchiffon
| Saturday, 11 July 1908 || || '''Final'''
|}
==Draw==
{{draw key}}
===Finals===
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==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
* {{cite book|author=Cook, Theodore Andrea |title=The Fourth Olympiad London 1908 Official Report |publisher=[[British Olympic Association]] |location=London |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1908/1908.pdf |format=PDF |access-date=2008-05-08 |date=May 1909 }}
* [http://www.itftennis.com/media/80351/80351.pdf  ITF, 2008 Olympic Tennis Event Media Guide]
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