Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's doubles
| Women's doubles | |
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| Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics | |
| Champions |
 Serena Williams Venus Williams (USA) |
| Runners-up |
 Anabel Medina Garrigues Virginia Ruano Pascual (ESP) |
| Final score | 6–2, 6–0 |
| Women's doubles tennis at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad | ||||||||||
| Venue | Olympic Green Tennis Centre | |||||||||
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| Date | 10 to 17 August | |||||||||
| Competitors | 64 from 21 nations | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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The women's doubles tennis competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing was held from 10 August to 17 August at the Olympic Green Tennis Centre. The DecoTurf surface rendered the event a hardcourt tournament.
The results returned the gold to the United States, after the only Olympiad at which they had not won the gold medal since the event's re-introduction in 1988. It was also the second occasion on which the team of Serena and Venus Williams emerged as Olympic champions, having previously captured the gold in Sydney. Spanish Olympian Virginia Ruano Pascual successfully defended her silver medal from Athens, albeit with a different partner. Although China failed to repeat its historic championship performance from Athens, it did return to the medal stand for a bronze. Russia, whose doubles teams were composed of individuals who had won all the medals in this Olympiad's singles event, failed to advance past the quarterfinals.
Medalists
| Gold | Serena Williams / Venus Williams United States (USA) |
| Silver | Anabel Medina Garrigues / Virginia Ruano Pascual Spain (ESP) |
| Bronze |  Yan Zi / Zheng JieChina (CHN) |
Calendar
| August | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
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| Morning | 10.30 | 10.30 | 10.30 | |||||
| Afternoon | 17.00 | 17.00 | 17.00 | 16.00 | 16.00 | 16.00 | 16.00 | 16.00 |
| Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Bronze Final |
Seeds
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Svetlana Kuznetsova / Dinara Safina (RUS) (Quarterfinals) - Serena Williams / Venus Williams (USA) (Champions, Gold Medalists)
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Chan Yung-jan / Chuang Chia-jung (TPE) (Second Round) - Anabel Medina Garrigues / Virginia Ruano Pascual (ESP) (Final, Silver Medalists)
- Lindsay Davenport / Liezel Huber (USA) (Quarterfinals)
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Alona Bondarenko / Kateryna Bondarenko (UKR) (Semifinals, Fourth Place) - Elena Vesnina / Vera Zvonareva (RUS) (Quarterfinals)
- Yan Zi / Zheng Jie (CHN) (Semifinals, Bronze Medalists)
Draw
Key
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Finals
| Semifinals | Final (gold medal match) | |||||||||||
| 8 | Yan Zi (CHN) Zheng Jie (CHN) |
4 | 65 | |||||||||
| 4 | Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP) Virginia Ruano Pascual (ESP) |
6 | 77 | |||||||||
| 4 | Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP) Virginia Ruano Pascual (ESP) |
2 | 0 | |||||||||
| 2 | Serena Williams (USA) Venus Williams (USA) |
6 | 6 | |||||||||
| 6 | Alona Bondarenko (UKR) Kateryna Bondarenko (UKR) |
6 | 4 | 1 | ||||||||
| 2 | Serena Williams (USA) Venus Williams (USA) |
4 | 6 | 6 | Bronze medal match | |||||||
| 8 | Yan Zi (CHN) Zheng Jie (CHN) |
6 | 6 | |||||||||
| 6 | Alona Bondarenko (UKR) Kateryna Bondarenko (UKR) |
2 | 2 | |||||||||
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