The Championships, Wimbledon the 2017 tournament would begin on Monday 3 July. Other grass-court tournaments before Wimbledon are Eastbourne, England, and Rosmalen in the Netherlands, both combining mixed events. The other women's warm-up tournament for Wimbledon is Birmingham, also in England. The only grass-court tournament scheduled after the Championships is the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships at Newport, Rhode Island, USA, which takes place the week after Wimbledon. Wimbledon is scheduled for 14 days, beginning on a Monday and ending on a Sunday. Before 1982 it ended a day earlier, with the women's singles final on the Friday and the men's singles final
Tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's Singles Tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's Singles The men's singles tennis tournament of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro was held at the Olympic Tennis Centre in the Barra Olympic Park in Barra da Tijuca in the west zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The final was played on 14 August 2016. Top seed and world number-one Novak Djokovic was defeated in the first round by Juan Martín del Potro with two consecutive tie-breaking sets. This was the second time that del Potro had beaten Djokovic in Olympic competition, following his victory in the bronze medal