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)