The Paris 2024 Olympic
Games Mascot is depicted here serving to try to put its opponent in trouble
from the start.
Historically, the
presence of tennis at the Olympic Games has been on and off. Present at the
first modern edition in Athens in 1896, it left the Olympic program in 1924 and
returned as a demonstration sport in Mexico City in 1968. The little yellow
ball did not return to the Olympic program until 1988, in Seoul. At the Olympic
Games, tennis has men's and women's singles and doubles events, as well as a
mixed doubles event.
