China's Zheng Qinwen defeated Croatia's Donna Vekić in the final, 6–2, 6–3 to win the gold medal in the women's singles tennis event at the 2024 Summer Olympics. It was China's first gold medal in the women's singles, its first gold medal in Olympic tennis since the women's doubles in 2004, the first singles gold medal for an Asian country in Olympic tennis, and also the first women's singles medal for Croatia. Zheng saved a match point en route to the gold medal, in the third round against the United States' Emma Navarro. In the bronze medal match, Poland's Iga Świątek defeated Slovakia's Anna Karolína Schmiedlová, 6–2, 6–1. It was Poland's first Olympic medal in tennis. Ranked No. 67, Schmiedlová was the lowest-ranked semifinalist since tennis returned to the Olympics in 1988, and the first Slovak woman to reach that stage.