Tennis Qualification to Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024 Road to Paris 2024

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So new entries from russian tennis federation:

 

Doubles nominated as

 

Medvedev/Safiullin + Kotov/Karatsev

Andreeva/Kudermetova + Aleksanrova/Shnajder

 

Playes nominated in doubles are going play singles too

 

Important note

These entries are to be confirmed by the IOC

[jayakris 3]

1 hour ago, avlar said:

So new entries from russian tennis federation:

 

Medvedev/Safiullin + Kotov/Karatsev

 

Playes nominated in doubles are going play singles too

That means Medvedev, Safiullin and Kotov in singles.  Karatsev is pretty low to make the cut for singles.  Right?

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7 minutes ago, jayakris said:

That means Medvedev, Safiullin and Kotov in singles.  Karatsev is pretty low to make the cut for singles.  Right?

They announced Karatsev in singles too. But of course, nobody knows who exactly will be allowed to play by the IOC.

Its interesting that russian sources announced earlier that Andreeva and Kudermetova may have problems with the IOC, and they are in the same pair.

Andreeva and Medvedev are expected in mixed.

But we still do not know whethe AIN`s doubles will be allowed by the IOC. It is notable that the list lack Zvonareva from doubles rankings.

 

[MatiReimundo 230]

8 minutes ago, jayakris said:

That means Medvedev, Safiullin and Kotov in singles.  Karatsev is pretty low to make the cut for singles.  Right?

Karatsev is ranked 92, if he is in, this means the following players are also in:  Mensik,  Bergs,  Daniel,  Marterer and  Coric.

 

Next:  Wawrinka,  Shang,  Murray,  Harris,  Van de Zandschulp.

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1 minute ago, MatiReimundo said:

Karatsev is ranked 92, if he is in, this means the following players are also in:  Mensik,  Bergs,  Daniel,  Marterer and  Coric.

I suppose it is probably still too early for us to be sure of this.  Karatsev is probably only nominated to IOC who may have told Russian federation that he is an alternative as of now (like Sumit Nagal is).  But I am pretty sure that these guys will be in the first official entry list that comes out in 2 weeks.

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21 minutes ago, MatiReimundo said:

Karatsev is ranked 92, if he is in, this means the following players are also in:  Mensik,  Bergs,  Daniel,  Marterer and  Coric.

 

Next:  Wawrinka,  Shang,  Murray,  Harris,  Van de Zandschulp.

If Murray and Wawrinka get in on ranking (as now seems likely), who gets the legacy spots?

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3 hours ago, avlar said:

So new entries from russian tennis federation:

 

Doubles nominated as

 

Medvedev/Safiullin + Kotov/Karatsev

Andreeva/Kudermetova + Aleksanrova/Shnajder

 

Playes nominated in doubles are going play singles too

 

Important note

These entries are to be confirmed by the IOC

For me very surprising nomination: no Kalinskaya no Zvonareva...

Kudermetova? 

[MatiReimundo 230]

1 hour ago, mpjmcevoy said:

If Murray and Wawrinka get in on ranking (as now seems likely), who gets the legacy spots?

 Dominic Thiem is the only one possible. If not, the quotas are reallocated to next in rankings, which was the case in Tokyo.

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18 hours ago, Monzanator said:

Tours are doing as best as they can. Olympics are mainly held in July these days and July is full of clay 250s which all the top players would skip anyway. The post-Wimbledon clay events are usually for lower ranked players or clay speciallists (some higher ranked players could enter them if they did bad on grass). Most top players are HC speciallists these days (Nadal who is on his last rites anyway and Świątek are exceptions from the rule). The two most important events during August are Canadian Open and Cincinnati. They are not getting moved and the week before USO is another 250 and new 500 in Mexico for women. Again, top players don't want to overplay one week before US Open. The entry list cut-off will be much higher than in Canada & Cincinnati.

 

The days of 2000 when Sydney OG were in September and there was a two week break between US Open and the Olympics will not return. Back then the season ended in mid-November (YEC date) or late November for Fed Cup final. These days women end their season in mid-October and they still complain they play too much.

 

ATP had their 2000 YEC in the last week of November. This year it's held in the second week of November.

 

The overall schedule issue is that Olympics are held in the same year as European Football Championships which is getting longer with more teams allowed. The days of 8/16 teams Euro ending in the last weekend of June are over. You won't see UEFA Euro overlapping the Olympics anytime soon and NEVER if Olympics are held in Europe as well. Everyone has to fall behind, even Athletics ECh which literally ended on a Wednesday this year not to mess up with the UEFA event. As big as World Athletics are, they are third string compared to UEFA.

 

The ideal Olympics schedule for tennis would be the second and third week of July. But that's not gonna happen with UEFA Euro stretching to mid-July these days. The 2008 schedule when Beijing was held in mid-August was also a killer, you had the USO swing either side of the OG (and most of it was front-loaded before OG anyway including all the Tier I events as they were called back then). Same thing happened in 2004 with Athens (also held in mid-August).

 

In 2024 to have ONE 500 event in DC during the Olympics is as good as it gets. It saves them having to split the USO swing into two halves if the OG would be held in August all the time. That 500 will be a good chance for lower ranked players or those who didn't make the OG cut due to nations quota to get an event result on their ranking. And Sabalenka would be a bigger favorite to win Washington than she would be of making the OG final for instance IMO.

 

Sorry for the long post but I do have an extended history of watching tennis so I'm not talking out of context here

I don't dispute that. My point was in the context of people discussing getting more players to the Olympics. I'm relatively fine with the system as is myself. I was just discussing the potential ways of increasing Olympic turnout if that's what people wanted.

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9 hours ago, gilbsh said:

But Rafa skipped the grass season also in some non-olympic years..

I know. My post was in defence of him (and others) using the surface change reason.