Olympics+Background

The flag on the opening ceremony will be held by Novak Đoković, the world-number-one male tennis-player and the bronze medal winner at the 2008 Olympics.
 * Serbia** is scheduled to compete at the **2012 Summer Olympics** in London, United Kingdom.

Main article: Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics The **Men's Singles tennis competition** at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing was held from August 10 to August 17 at the Olympic Green Tennis Centre. The DecoTurf surface rendered the event a hardcourt competition. Matches were in best-of-3 sets, except for the final which was in best-of-5 sets. No tiebreak was played in the final set. Runner-up Fernando González of Chile became the first male tennis player to medal in the event in consecutive Olympiads since the reintroduction of the sport in 1988. The last Olympian to accomplish the feat was Charles Winslow, although his medals were 8 years apart, due to the cancellation of the 1916 Summer Olympics.

The **2008 Summer Olympics**, officially known as the **Games of the XXIX Olympiad**, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees competed in 28 sports and 302 events (a total of one event more than the schedule of the 2004 Games). China became the 22nd nation to host the Olympic Games and the 18th to hold a Summer Olympic Games. It was the third time that the Summer Olympic Games were held in Asia, after Tokyo, Japan, in 1964 and Seoul, South Korea, in 1988. The equestrian events were held in Hong Kong.