Following are the men's singles medalists from previous Olympic Games tennis event since 1988 when the sport came back to the Olympic family as a medal event:

2004 Athens

Gold: Nicolas Massu, Chile

Silver: Mardy Fish, United States

Bronze: Fernando Gonzalez, Chile

2000 Sydney

Gold: Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Russia

Silver: Tommy Haas, Germany

Bronze: Arnaud Di Pasquale, France

1996 Atlanta

Gold: Andre Agassi, United States

Silver: Sergi Bruguera, Spain

Bronze: Leander Paes, India

1992 Barcelona

Gold: Marc Rosset, Switzerland

Silver: Jordi Arrese, Spain

Bronze: Andrei Cherkasov, Unified Team/Goran Ivanisevic, Croatia

1988 Seoul

Gold: Miloslav Mecir, (former) Czechoslovakia

Silver: Tim Mayotte, United States

Bronze: Stefan Edberg, Sweden

(Xinhua News Agency August 10, 2008)