First qualifying matches in Indian Wells have started.

Women's singles qualifying draw: http://www.wtatennis.com/SEWTATour-Archive/posting/2016/609/QS.pdf

It might be early for the feedback. But I actually like this software better, definitely! The only thing I regret is the lost work. Guess that was the price (or in Sindo's case, additional one). At least we have already existing community and I believe we'll work it out this time too.

I think we can start posting results again, but not as a mandatory thing. I would like to have some place where I can check results from sports I do not follow, or are difficult to find. Or even from more popular sports like football, but from competitions which are not covered widely. Over the last few years, totallympics was my main source of information and results.But above all, I would like to keep discussion as s priority. 

Big win for young Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska, born in 2000, in Campinas 25k. She beat second seed Alize Lim 6-4 6-4 to win the biggest title so far for generation 2000.

Other Pro titles for girls born in 2000:

Claire Liu (USA) $10K Orlando
Katarina Zavatska (UKR) $10K Telavi, $10K Sharm El Sheikh
Olesya Pervushina (RUS) $10K Santa Margherita

Andrey Rublev won his first ATP Challenger title and is the third player born in 1997 to do so after Zverev and Fritz. He did it as a qualifier, beating Mathieu 6-7 6-4 6-4

Rublev should play qualifications in California desert next.

Such a pity Kei lost to Murray, would like to see deciding fifth rubber. 

Well, I am glad Kazakh coach let Nedovyesov to play. Even on this slow court I think Golubev could be more dangerous. 

I hope Novak won't play in July even if Murray shows up for GB

On 3/5/2016 at 5:47 AM, dareza said:

Really? 3:0. Poor Novak. He thought that he will play only one match or two because he had that problems with eyes,but now is situation different.

I really don't know why on earth Novak played doubles. He is awful doubles player. Zimonjic is far away from his best days but he and Troicki would've been better option. Still, doubles rubber will always be the main problem. And when Novak is missing, any decent team can beat "Obradovic's dream team"

On 3/5/2016 at 6:07 AM, rybak said:

And after all Georgia will fight with Zimbabwe to stay in II European/African Zone 

Those glory days when Zimbabwe was in World Group quarterfinals  I hope they can beat Georgia but that would be huge surprise.

1 hour ago, rybak said:

And Novak won after over 5 hours match. Poor Mikhail, though

"Kazakhstani" are really crazy when play Davis Cup. I am wondering how much money they take for each Davis Cup win. Must be a lot.

Just now, rybak said:

Or she will announced that she finished this season already, because want recovery from injury or she is pregnant.

Pregnant with whom?  

12 hours ago, Pabloffo said:

That measure of not award ATP points seems to me absurd. You know why they did it? 

Money is the main reason. It is some internal clash between ATP/WTA and ITF.

Just now, Pabloffo said:

Yes, he gave priority to his qualification for the Olympics. For this reason he's not competing.

Well, many players might actually skip Olympics, especially lower ranked since ITF decided not to award ATP/WTA ranking points. Despite being honor and unique opportunity even with "prestige" of being Olympic medalist, Olympic Games in tennis are not important that much.

Here it is:

So many breaks on carpet  

Just now, rybak said:

I think that Nicka was error mode  I don't remember when last time he won match... Todays match showed how bad he is in this season.

Btw. I think that Argentina already can celebrate win in whole meeting, key match was Przysiężny - Pella and Michał sadly lost it... 

I'll check if there is any match statistics, if it's trustworthy at all... But no matter how bad he's been this season, losing to a non ranked boy, who have only three losses in singles and only one win in doubles at ITF Pro Circuit level, last junior event played in July 2015 is really embarrassing.

I read you chose fast surface and I think even Kubot could have been better choice for singles rubbers.

I thought GER-CZE tie could be the most entertaining and I am glad I was right. Two five setters! Pity Zverev lost. If he only won that first set.... He had more points than Berdych, but we all know it is not deciding factor. I hope he can learn from this match. Tomorrow is the crucial match. If Germans win, I believe Zverev can deliver the third point.

Well, I definitely didn't foresee Italy to struggle this much against weakened Switzerland!

You MUST hide your post. To do that, you have only to delete the space between the bracket "[" and the text "hide" in "[ hide]" at the beginning of prediction post. Do the same at the end of prediction post with "[ /hide]" too.

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Event & Date			Athletes	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Doubles' Sprint Luge Day 1 February 14th, 2020			Tristan Walker/Justin Snith
			Toni Eggert/Sascha Benecken
			Robin Geueke/David Gamm
			Tobias Wendl/Tobias Arlt
			Any Athletes from Italy
			Oskars Gudramovics/Peteris Kalnins
			Andris Sics/Juris Sics
			Wojciech Chmielewski/Jakub Kowalewski
			Aleksandr Denisev/Vladislav Antonov
			Vladislav Yuzhakov/Iurii Prokhorov
			Any Other Doubles
Women's Sprint Luge Day 1 February 14th, 2020			Madeleine Egle
			Anna Berreiter
			Julia Taubitz
			Andrea Voetter
			Any Athlete from Latvia
			Viktoriia Demchenko
			Tatyana Ivanova
			Ekaterina Katnikova
			Summer Britcher
			Emily Sweeney
			Any Other Athlete
Men's Sprint Luge Day 1 February 14th, 2020			David Gleirscher
			Wolfgang Kindl
			Jonas Mueller
			Felix Loch
			Johannes Ludwig
			Dominik Fischnaller
			Inars Kivlenieks
			Semen Pavlichenko
			Roman Repilov
			Tucker West
			Any Other Athlete
Doubles Luge Day 2 February 15th, 2020			Tristan Walker/Justin Snith
			Toni Eggert/Sascha Benecken
			Robin Geueke/David Gamm
			Tobias Wendl/Tobias Arlt
			Any Athletes from Italy
			Oskars Gudramovics/Peteris Kalnins
			Andris Sics/Juris Sics
			Wojciech Chmielewski/Jakub Kowalewski
			Aleksandr Denisev/Vladislav Antonov
			Vladislav Yuzhakov/Iurii Prokhorov
			Any Other Doubles
Women's Singles Luge Day 2 February 15th, 2020			Madeleine Egle
			Anna Berreiter
			Julia Taubitz
			Andrea Voetter
			Any Athlete from Latvia
			Viktoriia Demchenko
			Tatyana Ivanova
			Ekaterina Katnikova
			Summer Britcher
			Emily Sweeney
			Any Other Athlete
Men's Singles Luge Day 3 February 16th, 2020			David Gleirscher
			Wolfgang Kindl
			Jonas Mueller
			Felix Loch
			Johannes Ludwig
			Dominik Fischnaller
			Inars Kivlenieks
			Semen Pavlichenko
			Roman Repilov
			Tucker West
			Any Other Athlete
Team Relay Luge Day 3 February 16th, 2020			Austria
			Canada
			Germany
			Italy
			Latvia
			Poland
			Russia
			Slovakia
			United States
			Any Other Nation
2-Women Bobsleigh Day 4 February 22nd, 2020			An Vannieuwenhuyse
			Christine de Bruin
			Mariama Jamanka
			Laura Nolte
			Stephanie Schneider
			Mica McNeill
			Andreea Grecu
			Nadezhda Sergeeva
			Martina Fontanive
			Kaillie Humphries
			Any Other Athlete
2-Men Bobsleigh   Day 5 February 23rd, 2020			Justin Kripps
			Romain Heinrich
			Francesco Friedrich
			Richard Oelsner
			Nico Walther
			Brad Hall
			Oskars Kibermanis
			Rudy Rinaldi
			Alexey Stulnev
			Michael Vogt
			Hunter Church
			Any Other Athlete
Men's Skeleton Day 6 February 28th, 2020			Nathan Crumpton
			Any Athlete from China
			Alexander Gassner
			Axel Jungk
			Felix Keisinger
			Any Athlete from Great Britain
			Martins Dukurs
			Tomass Dukurs
			Nikita Tregubov
			Alexander Tretiakov
			Yun Sung-bin
			Any Other Athlete
Women's Skeleton  Day 7 February 29th, 2020			Janine Flock
			Kim Meylemans
			Jane Channell
			Mirela Rahneva
			Anna Fernstaedtova
			Sophia Griebel
			Tina Hermann
			Jacqueline Loelling
			Elena Nikitina
			Marina Gilardoni
			Megan Henry
			Any Other Athlete
4-Men Bobsleigh  Day 8 March 1st, 2020			Benjamin Maier
			Justin Kripps
			Dominik Dvorak
			Francesco Friedrich
			Johannes Lochner
			Nico Walther
			Oskars Kibermanis
			Any Athlete from Russia
			Won Yun-jong
			Michael Vogt
			Hunter Church
			Any Other Team
Mixed Team Event Day 8 March 1st, 2020			Austria
			Canada
			China
			Germany
			Any Mixed-NOC Team
			Russia
			United States
			Any Other Nation

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Qualification

There will be five separate events contested at Rio 2016:

1) Men's Singles: 64 draw

2) Women's Singles: 64 draw

3) Men's Doubles: 32 draw

4) Women's Doubles: 32 draw

5) Mixed Doubles: 16 draw

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Breakdown of entries

Men's / Women's Singles

- 56 Direct Acceptances, based on world rankings as of 6 June 2016

- 6 Final Qualification Places (ITF Places)

- 2 Tripartite Commission Invitation Places

Men's / Women's Doubles

- 24 Direct Acceptances, based on world rankings as of 6 June 2016

- 8 Final Qualification Places (ITF Places)

Mixed Doubles

- 12 Direct Acceptances, based on world rankings as of 6 June 2016

- 4 Final Qualification Places (ITF Places)

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Additional information 

To be eligible to compete in the Olympic Tennis Event at Rio 2016, all athletes must be in good standing with their National Association and the International Tennis Federation.

In addition, athletes must meet the minimum requirements regarding participation in Davis Cup and Fed Cup. Players are required to be part of a final nominated Davis Cup or Fed Cup team on a minimum of three occasions in the four-year Olympic cycle.

However, for those nations competing in the Zone Group round-robin format for at least three years of the four-year cycle the minimum nomination requirement is two occasions, as it is for players who have represented their nation 20 or more times. All players must be nominated at least once in 2015/16.

Click the PDF links below for a detailed description of the Qualification System for Rio 2016 and more detail on the Davis Cup and Fed Cup Eligibility Rule.

http://www.itftennis.com/media/222093/222093.pdf

http://www.itftennis.com/media/198113/198113.pdf

 

I am glad to see Durasovic succeeded to win. Norway have two great potentials, Viktor Durasovic and Casper Ruud. I hope both of them make top 100. 

I haven't heard of this boy, Christian Sigsgaard, he's either good or Basilashvili was in complete error mode. Huge surprise there, given the fact Georgia is a host. But also, I am wondering was it smart to choose carpet... It will suit Nielsen the best lol

What a return for Nieminen, 6-0 6-0 6-0

Kinda expected result in SRB-KAZ tie, Kazakhstani players are really something different in Davis Cup (the Netherlands of Davis cup, lol)

Now, cheering for Zverev with all heart  

Sabine.... no words -.-

Ram, Fritz, McDonald, Del Potro and Tiafoe on men's side and Watson, Riske, Hantuchova, Davis, Crawford, Shuai Zhang, Rogers, Loeb on women's with MDWCs along with Sharapova's withdrawal...

Tiafoe will become first player born in 1998 to play at some ATP Masters 1000 event.

1 minute ago, Danylove80 said:

Yes Korea have good prospective players but for me USA have 4-5 great talent in their hand...

USA are on the way to their old glory days! I hope most of their young players will pass the transition to senior tennis, like Fritz is doing lately. Great depth of players, most of them born in 1996-1998 span. 

Fritz, Paul, Tiafoe, Kozlov, Opelka, Mmoh, Donaldson...

I was delighted with Fritz's performance in Memphis and Acapulco. That guy is great, and I expect him in top 50 very soon.

Bah, cakewalk for Italy.

On the other hand, the most interesting tie is between Germany and Czech Republic. Berdych is a big plus for the Czechs, but I hope Davis Cup will provide some surprise.

As expected, even Hong (who won three Futures in Turkey over the last few weeks) was too strong for Statham. South Korea should become great power in men's tennis in upcoming years with, at least, 3-4 highly talented youngsters.

Back on WTA, Kontaveit with two great back to back wins over Cibulkova and Errani 

WTA Race to Rio standings after Acapulco/Doha...

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13 minutes ago, Werloc said:

The most painful thing about Totallympics going down was the fact that it did go down right before the Biathlon prediction contest which I was anticipating for a couple of months

Misfortune

On a bright side, we should be able to organize the rest of scheduled contests.

2 minutes ago, bestmen said:

LOOOOOL why this rule and what if i remove all my posts ?

Read the opening post of this thread carefully. Once we get used to new software, open the most needed Olympic sports threads and establish some order, everyone will be able to open new threads.

Be patient

At this point, you better ask Sindo to allow you to open the thread you want

Well, it seems Hong is going to play singles matches together with Chung. Hong vs Statham and Chung vs Venus on day with reverse rubbers on Sunday. As expected, Venus and Chung selected for all three days.

Kyrgios is definitely out of Davis Cup, and Hewitt, like Nieminen, will step up and play at least one rubber if needed.