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After a surprising loss to Tomas Berdych in Athens 2004, Roger Federer came to Beijing as one of the favorites to win the men's singles Olympic gold medal, only to be denied by James Blake. Despite that, Roger turned his focus to men's doubles event, with his good friend Stan Wawrinka, and they went all the way to win the gold medal for Switzerland and bring the Olympic glory for themselves. A day earlier Swiss duo had a busy schedule, defeating Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes in the quarters first before they toppled Bob and Mike Bryan in the semis to reach the title match against Simon Aspelin and Thomas Johansson (in the semis, they beat Arnaud Clement and Michael Llodra in 4 hours and 46 minutes).

After that great win over the Bryan brothers, Roger and Stan were pumped and motivated to make one final push and grab the gold, and they beat the Swedes 6-3 6-4 6-7 6-3 to start a huge celebration after a service winner from Roger in the final point.

Swiss players earned the first break in game 4 and they closed the opener by 6-3 after good hold from Roger. The second set also brought them one break, enough for a 6-4, as they served better than Swedes and made fewer errors.

Johansson and Aspelin finally broke their rivals at the start of the third set, to gain some momentum, but it was a short-one, as they lost serve in the very next game after 3 double faults! Still, they won the tie break 7-4 to prolong the match for at least one more set, but that was all they could do.

Wawrinka and Federer broke in the 4th game of the 4th set and they kept it until the end. This came in the perfect moment for Roger, who was about to lose the number 1 spot to Rafael Nadal 2 days later, for the first time in 4 and a half years.