Tennis Qualification to Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games

[Nickyc707 382]

  On 6/24/2021 at 10:19 AM, Benolympique said:

I would have liked a Jamie Murray - Salisbury duo

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I think had he gone he'd have been more likely to team up with Skupskl who he's played with a fair bit.

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there is more tripartite in tennis?

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  On 6/24/2021 at 9:59 AM, Dragon said:

Looks like it. Also Cam Norrie, who reached an ATP final last week.

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Norrie entered to Los Cabos tournament instead...

[mpjmcevoy 362]

  On 6/24/2021 at 10:25 AM, Nickyc707 said:

I think had he gone he'd have been more likely to team up with Skupskl who he's played with a fair bit.

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I think Andy's super low current ranking was an issue - he really wanted to play doubles (where he might still actually have a shot at a medal if the gods smiled) but he and Jaime couldn't get in on combined ranking and Jamie had shown some prior reluctance. His only route in was Salisbury who as a top 10er had a basically free choice.

 

Looks like the first mixed doubles team will be Salisbury and Konta, which actually sounds quite strong. I do wonder if Dan or Neal might try and hook up with Heather Watson who's actually a pretty accomplished mixed doubles player. I'd assume, unlike 2012, Andy's neither got the ranking nor the hip to do all three events.

 

Romantically, it's fabulous the two time Olympic champ is coming back for one last roll of the dice - The Games are a part of Murrays legacy, and Murray part of the Games legacy in tennis that even the Big three don't quite match. Even with two Wimbly wins, in a sense the Olympics are Murray's Major (not unlike how the Ryder Cup became, in some ways Monty's Major).

 

 

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 Facundo Bagnis and Federico Coria are qualified too.

[hckošice 15,111]

Still no answer from ITF about the eventual acceptance of Lukáš Klein for the Doubles with Polášek...

 

however Filip is already mega happy wearing the Tokyo uniforms

 

[prso1000 682]

  On 6/24/2021 at 5:24 PM, hckošice said:

Still no answer from ITF about the eventual acceptance of Lukáš Klein for the Doubles with Polášek...

 

however Filip is already mega happy wearing the Tokyo uniforms

 

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Isn’t he in the Top 10 and has a guaranteed place

[hckošice 15,111]

  On 6/24/2021 at 5:34 PM, prso1000 said:

Isn’t he in the Top 10 and has a guaranteed place

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Yes but the question is about Klein

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  On 6/24/2021 at 4:02 PM, mpjmcevoy said:

I think Andy's super low current ranking was an issue - he really wanted to play doubles (where he might still actually have a shot at a medal if the gods smiled) but he and Jaime couldn't get in on combined ranking and Jamie had shown some prior reluctance. His only route in was Salisbury who as a top 10er had a basically free choice.

 

Looks like the first mixed doubles team will be Salisbury and Konta, which actually sounds quite strong. I do wonder if Dan or Neal might try and hook up with Heather Watson who's actually a pretty accomplished mixed doubles player. I'd assume, unlike 2012, Andy's neither got the ranking nor the hip to do all three events.

 

Romantically, it's fabulous the two time Olympic champ is coming back for one last roll of the dice - The Games are a part of Murrays legacy, and Murray part of the Games legacy in tennis that even the Big three don't quite match. Even with two Wimbly wins, in a sense the Olympics are Murray's Major (not unlike how the Ryder Cup became, in some ways Monty's Major).

 

 

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I'm not sure that a country can enter more than one mixed doubles pairing. I think it's just sixteen pairs in total. Could have changed but I don't think so. 

 

 

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  On 6/24/2021 at 6:16 PM, Nickyc707 said:

I'm not sure that a country can enter more than one mixed doubles pairing. I think it's just sixteen pairs in total. Could have changed but I don't think so. 

 

 

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won gold & Silver in Rio in Mixed Doubles, so I guess max 2 teams are allowed