RIO OLYMPICS 2016

[GameSetAndMath]

ITF has announced the entry list of 64 players who are selected to participate in the Tennis Singles Event at Rio Olympics. They are given below. The draw ceremony will be held on Thursday, the 4th of August and play commences on Saturday, the 6th August and ends on Sunday, the 14th August.

The draw is lot more involved and complex at the Olympics. If a country has two players, they assure that the two players will be in different halves of the draw. If a country has three or four players (each country is limited to a maximum of four players), they assure that each player will be in a different quarter. These constraints have to be met and then as much as possible, the traditional constraints based on seeding as well.

Of the 64 players, 56 came through by virtue of being top player in the ranking list of 6th June and six are determined by ITF using a qualification system and two are determined by tripartite commission to give representation to countries which are not usually represented.

Milos indicated he is not playing after the list was released on 15th July. He will be replaced by some other player by the ITF.


Argentina: Juan Martin del Potro, Federico Delbonis, Juan Monaco, Guido Pella

Australia: John Millman, Thanasi Kokkinakis

Barbados: Darian King (TRI)

Beligum: David Goffin

Bosnia/Herzegovina: Damir Dzumhur (TRI)

Brazil: Thomaz Bellucci, Rogerio Dutra Silva

Bulgaira: Grigor Dimitrov

Canada: Milos Raonic, Vasek Pospisil

Chinese Taipei: Lu Yen-Hsun

Croatia: Marin Cilic, Borna Coric

Cyprus: Marcos Baghdatis

Czech Republic: Tomas Berdych, Jiri Vesely, Lukas Rosol

Dominican Republic: Victor Estrella Burgos

France: Richard Gasquet, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Gael Monfils, Gilles Simon

Georgia: Nikoloz Basilashvili (ITF)

Germany: Philipp Kohlschreiber, Alexander Zverev, Dustin Brown (ITF), Jan-Lennard Struff (ITF)

Great Britain: Andy Murray, Kyle Edmund (ITF)

Israel: Dudi Sela

Italy: Fabio Fognini, Andreas Seppi, Paolo Lorenzi

Japan: Kei Nishikori

Kazakhstan: Mikhail Kukushkin

Lithuania: Ricardas Berankis

Luxemborg: Gilles Muller

Netherlands: Robin Haase

Poland: Jerzy Janowicz (ITF)

Portugal: Joao Sousa, Gastao Elias (ITF)

Russia: Andrey Kuznetsov, Evgeny Donskoy

Serbia: Novak Djokovic, Viktor Troicki

Slovakia: Martin Klizan

Spain: Rafael Nadal, David Ferrer, Roberto Bautista Agut, Albert Ramos-Vinolas

Switzerland: Roger Federer, Stan Wawrinka

Tunisia: Malek Jaziri

Ukraine: Illya Marchenko

Uruguay: Pablo Cuevas

USA: Jack Sock, Steve Johnson, Denis Kudla, Brian Baker

Uzbekistan: Denis Istomin

(*) Subject to July Davis Cup participation or ITF Olympic Committee appeal
(ITF) ITF Place (Final Qualification Place)
(TRI) Tripartite Commission Invitation place

p.s. ITF has also announced the 32 teams for the Men's doubles event. But, I am not posting it here. The mixed doubles teams will be formed at the site after the players arrive there. Any player wanting to play in the mixed doubles event should have qualified themselves for Olympics either for the singles or the regular doubles event.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

Argentina, France, Germany, Spain and USA are the five countries with the four players, the maximum allowed, representing them. They account for 20 (i.e., more than one fourth of the pool) of the 64 players.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

Recall that in 2012 Olympics, Roger Federer won against JMDP with a scoreline of 3-6, 7-6, 19-17 and then he was so tired and he lost to Andy Murray in the finals meekly.

Guess what, they have changed the rules this time and they now say the tie-break will operate in every set. However, they have retained the idea of using a 5-set match for the finals alone.

If only these rules were in place in 2012, Roger might have already got his OG in singles.

 

[rafanoy1992]

Recall that in 2012 Olympics, Roger Federer won against JMDP with a scoreline of 3-6, 7-6, 19-17 and then he was so tired and he lost to Andy Murray in the finals meekly.

Guess what, they have changed the rules this time and they now say the tie-break will operate in every set. However, they have retained the idea of using a 5-set match for the finals alone.

If only these rules were in place in 2012, Roger might have already got his OG in singles.

True...but Murray was playing well throughout the whole Olympics so it would not be be a guaranteed that Federer would win Gold even if he played a tiebreak in the semi-final match.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

First it was Milos.

Now, it is Berdych. He too has pulled out citing Zika concerns.

We don't know how many more will follow suit.

 

[isabelle]

Recall that in 2012 Olympics, Roger Federer won against JMDP with a scoreline of 3-6, 7-6, 19-17 and then he was so tired and he lost to Andy Murray in the finals meekly.

Guess what, they have changed the rules this time and they now say the tie-break will operate in every set. However, they have retained the idea of using a 5-set match for the finals alone.

If only these rules were in place in 2012, Roger might have already got his OG in singles.

are you sure tireness is the only reason of Mr Vavrinec's loss ??? Murray played much much better than him, even fresh I 'm not sure than the Swiss'ld have won !!! nobody can say, it's only my opinion but all credits go to Murray for his gold medal

 

[the AntiPusher]

I am surprised DY Jr. Isn't picked to go to the games . His play has been better than a few of the chosen US slugs that were

 

[GameSetAndMath]

I am surprised DY Jr. Isn't picked to go to the games . His play has been better than a few of the chosen US slugs that were

The thing is that Brian Baker has a protected ranking and so was entitled to a place in the team even though he has won just one match (or is it none) this year.

 

[the AntiPusher]

Thanks for the update GSM

 

[herios]

First it was Milos.

Now, it is Berdych. He too has pulled out citing Zika concerns.

We don't know how many more will follow suit.

Thiem pulled also out, he was actually the first I heard of.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

First it was Milos.

Now, it is Berdych. He too has pulled out citing Zika concerns.

We don't know how many more will follow suit.

Thiem pilled also out, he was actually the first I heard of.

Yes, but he did so well before the field was officially announced by ITF on July 15th.

Isner also announced well before that he is not going. But, I don't think he cited Zika as the issue.

 

[isabelle]

Paire"ll replace injured Gasquet (it's not because os Zika this time)

 

[GameSetAndMath]

Recall that in 2012 Olympics, Roger Federer won against JMDP with a scoreline of 3-6, 7-6, 19-17 and then he was so tired and he lost to Andy Murray in the finals meekly.

Guess what, they have changed the rules this time and they now say the tie-break will operate in every set. However, they have retained the idea of using a 5-set match for the finals alone.

If only these rules were in place in 2012, Roger might have already got his OG in singles.

are you sure tireness is the only reason of Mr Vavrinec's loss ??? Murray played much much better than him, even fresh I 'm not sure than the Swiss'ld have won !!! nobody can say, it's only my opinion but all credits go to Murray for his gold medal

Come on, just a month before at the very same place Roger crushed Andy so bad that he cried. No one expected Andy to reverse course in such a short period of time. Fed's tiredness was a serious factor in that match.

Having said that it does not take anything away from Andy's win. It is the responsibility of his opponent to make sure that he was not tired for such an important match.

 

[Great Hands]

Recall that in 2012 Olympics, Roger Federer won against JMDP with a scoreline of 3-6, 7-6, 19-17 and then he was so tired and he lost to Andy Murray in the finals meekly.

Guess what, they have changed the rules this time and they now say the tie-break will operate in every set. However, they have retained the idea of using a 5-set match for the finals alone.

If only these rules were in place in 2012, Roger might have already got his OG in singles.

are you sure tireness is the only reason of Mr Vavrinec's loss ??? Murray played much much better than him, even fresh I 'm not sure than the Swiss'ld have won !!! nobody can say, it's only my opinion but all credits go to Murray for his gold medal

Come on, just a month before at the very same place Roger crushed Andy so bad that he cried. No one expected Andy to reverse course in such a short period of time. Fed's tiredness was a serious factor in that match.

Having said that it does not take anything away from Andy's win. It is the responsibility of his opponent to make sure that he was not tired for such an important match.

Federer did not 'crush' Andy in that WD final. Andy won the first set and the second set was extremely tight, Federer was actually struggling and Andy was the better player even in the second set until the very end of the set where Federer played two amazing shots to steal that set and save himself. Even sets 3 and 4 were highly competitive. If Andy had managed to win set 2, the outcome of the match could have been very different. That is not 'crushing' someone. You could see even then that Andy was improving and that the margins for him against Federer were very small. That is precisely why Andy was so upset, because he had played so well and it had actually been a highly competitive match, but he'd still lost.

Federer had the easier Olympics SF than Murray on paper, but he took an age to dispose of Del Potro, whereas Murray beat Djokovic efficiently in straights in his SF. It's not just about the F, but how efficiently you win all the rounds, that determines the champion. If Federer was tired in the final, it was his fault for not disposing of Del Potro more quickly. Same as Murray's two 5-setters in the FO this year, or indeed Novak's SF at WD in 2013, where he had match points to win it in 4, but couldn't seal the deal (same happened to Andy against Roger in the AO SF13). In all these cases, it cost them in the final, but that was their repsonsibility to win these other matches more efficiently when they had chances.

 

[Great Hands]

Come on, just a month before at the very same place Roger crushed Andy so bad that he cried.

Federer did not 'crush' Andy in that WD final. Andy won the first set and the second set was extremely tight, Federer was actually struggling and Andy was the better player even in the second set until the very end of the set where Federer played two amazing shots to steal that set and save himself. Even sets 3 and 4 were highly competitive. If Andy had managed to win set 2, the outcome of the match could have been very different. That is not 'crushing' someone. You could see even then that Andy was improving and that the margins for him against Federer were very small. That is precisely why Andy was so upset, because he had played so well and it had actually been a highly competitive match, but he'd still lost.

It is the responsibility of his opponent to make sure that he was not tired for such an important match.

I agree with this. Federer had the easier Olympics SF than Murray on paper, but he took an age to dispose of Del Potro, whereas Murray beat Djokovic efficiently in straights in his SF. It's not just about how you play in the final, but how efficiently you win all the rounds, that determines the champion. If Federer was tired in the final, it was his fault for not disposing of Del Potro more quickly. Same as Murray's two 5-setters in the FO this year, or indeed Novak's SF at WD in 2013, where he had match points to win it in 4, but couldn't seal the deal. In all these cases, it cost them in the final, but, as you say, that was their responsibility to win these other matches more efficiently when they had chances.

 

[Kieran]

Recall that in 2012 Olympics, Roger Federer won against JMDP with a scoreline of 3-6, 7-6, 19-17 and then he was so tired and he lost to Andy Murray in the finals meekly.

Guess what, they have changed the rules this time and they now say the tie-break will operate in every set. However, they have retained the idea of using a 5-set match for the finals alone.

If only these rules were in place in 2012, Roger might have already got his OG in singles.

are you sure tireness is the only reason of Mr Vavrinec's loss ??? Murray played much much better than him, even fresh I 'm not sure than the Swiss'ld have won !!! nobody can say, it's only my opinion but all credits go to Murray for his gold medal

Come on, just a month before at the very same place Roger crushed Andy so bad that he cried. No one expected Andy to reverse course in such a short period of time. Fed's tiredness was a serious factor in that match.

Having said that it does not take anything away from Andy's win. It is the responsibility of his opponent to make sure that he was not tired for such an important match.

:laydownlaughing

It just says, "no way he'd have won otherwise."

Fact is, a month earlier, Roger beat him in four close sets (as opposed to "crushed him so badly"), and up until Andy blinked sometime late in the second set, imagine the pressure he was under, he looked best placed to win it. He cried? Hey, Fed has stolen Rafa's thunder by blubbing like a longhaired sissy after a big match.

No doubt Federer was tired, but he might still have been beaten anyway...

 

[Great Hands]

are you sure tireness is the only reason of Mr Vavrinec's loss ??? Murray played much much better than him, even fresh I 'm not sure than the Swiss'ld have won !!! nobody can say, it's only my opinion but all credits go to Murray for his gold medal

Come on, just a month before at the very same place Roger crushed Andy so bad that he cried. No one expected Andy to reverse course in such a short period of time. Fed's tiredness was a serious factor in that match.

Having said that it does not take anything away from Andy's win. It is the responsibility of his opponent to make sure that he was not tired for such an important match.

Fact is, a month earlier, Roger beat him in four close sets (as opposed to "crushed him so badly"), and up until Andy blinked sometime late in the second set, imagine the pressure he was under, he looked best placed to win it. He cried? Hey, Fed has stolen Rafa's thunder by blubbing like a longhaired sissy after a big match.

No doubt Federer was tired, but he might still have been beaten anyway...

I was just about to say the same thing.

 

[Great Hands]

I was just about to say the same thing. Federer did not 'crush' Andy in that WD final. Andy won the first set and the second set was extremely tight, Federer was actually struggling and Andy was the better player even in the second set until the very end of the set where Federer played a couple of amazing shots to steal that set and save himself. Even sets 3 and 4 were highly competitive. If Andy had managed to win set 2, the outcome of the match could have been very different. That is not 'crushing' someone. You could see even then that Andy was improving and that the margins for him against Federer were very small. That is precisely why Andy was so upset, because he had played so well and it had actually been a highly competitive match, but he'd still lost.

It is the responsibility of his opponent to make sure that he was not tired for such an important match.

I agree with this. Federer had the easier Olympics SF than Murray on paper, but he took an age to dispose of Del Potro, whereas Murray beat Djokovic efficiently in straights in his SF. It's not just about how you play in the final, but how efficiently you win all the rounds, that determines the champion.

 

[Tennisman12345]

The roof also played a part in the Wimbledon final

 

[El Dude]

Fearless prediction: Rafa wins Olympic gold for the second time.

I don't think it will actually happen as Rafa will likely be too rusty, but for some reason I kind of want to see this happen.

In reality it will probably be Novak, but Kei would be a darkhorse candidate.