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Provisional entry lists according to May 17th rankings.

 

Obviously some of the players will choose not to participate (maybe Nadal, Federer, S. Williams...), some others may not be eligible due to not being part of nominated teams for two Davis Cup / Billie Jean King Cup events.

 

TENNIS M SINGLES

 

 

 

 

 

 

q    1. SRB 1         Novak Djokovic

      2. RUS 1         Daniil Medvedev

3. ESP 1          Rafael Nadal

      4. AUT 1        Dominic Thiem

      5. GRE 1         Stefanos Tsitsipas

      6. GER 1         Alexander Zverev

      7. RUS 2         Andrey Rublev

      8. SUI 1          Roger Federer

      9. ITA 1          Matteo Berrettini

10. ARG 1      Diego Schwartzman

      11. ESP 2        Roberto Bautista Agut

      12. ESP 3        Pablo Carreno Busta

13. BEL 1       David Goffin

      14. FRA 1       Gael Monfils

15. CAN 1      Denis Shapovalov

16. CAN 2      Milos Raonic

      17. ITA 2        Jannik Sinner

18. POL 1      Hubert Hurkacz

      19. CAN 3      Felix Auger-Aliassime

20. BUL 1       Grigor Dimitrov

21. NOR 1      Casper Ruud

      22. AUS 1       Alex de Minaur

      23. CHI 1        Cristian Garin

24. SUI 2        Stan Wawrinka

25. RUS 3       Aslan Karatsev

      26. RUS 4       Karen Khachanov

27. GBR 1      Daniel Evans

28. ITA 3        Lorenzo Sonego

29. ITA 4        Fabio Fognini

30. CRO 1      Borna Coric

31. GEO 1      Nikoloz Basilashvili

32. USA 1       Taylor Fritz

      33. FRA 2       Ugo Humbert

34. USA 2       John Isner

35. USA 3       Reilly Opelka

- FRA - DNS  Benoit Paire

36. FRA 3       Adrian Mannarino

37. KAZ 1      Alexander Bublik

      38. ESP 4        Albert Ramos-Vinolas

39. SRB 2       Dusan Lajovic

40. SRB 3       Filip Krajinovic

41. GER 2       Jan-Lennard Struff

      42. AUS 2       John Millman

      43. HUN 1      Marton Fucsovics

- ESP 5           Alejandro Davidovich-Fokina

      44. CRO 2      Marin Cilic

45. SRB 4       Miomir Kecmanovic

      46. JPN 1        Kei Nishikori

47. GBR 2      Cameron Norrie

48. ARG 2      Federico Delbonis

      49. RSA 1       Lloyd Harris

50. FRA 4       Richard Gasquet

      51. USA 4       Tommy Paul

- SRB 5           Laslo Djere

52. SLO 1       Aljaz Bedene

53. AUS 3       Nick Kyrgios

- FRA 5          Jeremy Chardy

54. ARG 3      Guido Pella

      55. GER 3       Dominik Koepfer

      56. JPN 2        Yoshihito Nishioka

 

 

 

Q   57. BRA         Joao Menezes (Am1)

      58. CHI           Tomas Barrios (Am2)

      59. UZB          Denis Istomin (As1)

      60. EGY          Mohamed Safwat (Af1)

 

 

 

      61. ???            Eu1

      62. ???            Oc1

      63. ???            L1

            64. ???            H1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

21.05.17

https://www.atptour.com/en/rankings/singles

 

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_at_the_2020_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Qualification#Men's_singles

 

 

 

TENNIS W SINGLES

 

 

 

 

q    1. AUS 1         Ashleigh Barty

      2. JPN 1          Naomi Osaka

      3. ROU 1        Simona Halep

4. BLR 1         Alyna Sabalenka

5. USA 1         Sofia Kenin

      6. UKR 1        Elina Svitolina

      7. CAN 1        Bianca Andreescu

      8. USA 1         Serena Williams

      9. POL 1        Iga Świątek

10. CZE 1       Karolina Pliskova

      11. SUI 1        Belinda Bencic

12. CZE 2       Petra Kvitova

13. ESP 1        Garbine Muguruza

14. USA 2       Jennifer Brady

15. BEL 1       Elise Mertens

      16. BLR 2       Viktoria Azarenka

      17. NED 1      Kiki Bertens

      18. GRE 1       Maria Sakkari

      19. CZE 3       Karolina Muchova

20. GBR 1      Johanna Konta

      21. CZE 4       Marketa Vondrousova

22. KAZ 1      Elena Rybakina

23. CRO 1      Petra Martic

24. USA 3       Madison Keys

      25. TUN 1      Ons Jabeur

      26. GER 1       Angelique Kerber

27. USA 4       Alison Riske

- USA 5          Jessica Pegula

      28. RUS 1       Veronika Kudermetova

- USA 6          Cori Gauff

      29. EST 1       Anett Kontaveit

      30. RUS 2       Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova

      - UKR DNS?  Dayana Yastremska

      31. RUS 3       Ekaterina Alexandrova

      32. KAZ 2      Yulia Putintseva

      33. CRO 2      Donna Vekic

      34. RUS 4       Daria Kasatkina

      - CZE 5           Barbora Krejcikova

      - RUS 5          Svetlana Kuznetsova

      - USA 7          Amanda Anisimova

      35. LAT 1       Jelena Ostapenko

      36. ARG 1      Nadia Podoroska - Q Am2

      37. CHN 1      Shuai Zhang

      38. ESP 2        Paula Badosa

      - USA 8          Shelby Rogers

      39. LAT 2       Anastasija Sevastova

      40. POL 2      Magda Linette

      41. CHN 2      Qiang Wang - Q As1

      42. FRA 1       Fiona Ferro

      43. ESP 3        Sara Sorribes Tormo

      - USA 9          Danielle Collins

      - CZE 6           Marie Bouzkova

      44. FRA 2       Caroline Garcia

      45. SUI 2        Jil Teichmann

46. GER 2       Laura Siegemund

      - CZE 7           Barbora Strycova

      47. CHN 3      Saisai Zheng

      48. ROU 2      Sorana Cirstea

      49. FRA 3       Kristina Mladenovic

      50. SWE 1      Rebecca Peterson

      51. MNE 1      Danka Kovinic

      52. ROU 3      Patricia Maria Tig

      53. TPE 1       Su-Wei Hsieh

      54. FRA 4       Alize Cornet

      - USA 10        Sloane Stephens

      55. EST 2       Kaia Kanepi

      56. BEL 2       Alison van Uytvanck

 

 

 

Q   57. EGY          Mayar Sharif (Af1)

 

 

 

58. ???            Am1

      59. ???             Am2

      60. ???            As1

      61. ???            Eu1

      62. ???            Oc1

      63. ???            L1

            64. ???            H1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

21.05.17

https://www.wtatennis.com/rankings/singles

 

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_at_the_2020_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Qualification#Women's_singles

 

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:SVK Team Slovakia :SVK

3 (3+0)

 

MEN'S

Singles: Norbert Gombos

Doubles: Filip Polášek/Lukáš Klein

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Slovakia has never missed the Olympic tennis competitions. It will be its 7th consecutive appearance in this sport since the independence. However, it will now break into negative records books. Not only will we equal the smallest team in the history from Rio 5 years ago with only 3 players competing, but for the first time ever we will not be represented in women's competitions at all.

 

Atlanta 1996 (5 players, 2M+3W), Sydney 2000 (5, 2+3), Athens 2004 (7, 3+4), Beijing 2008 (4, 1+3), London 2012 (4, 2+2), Rio 2016 (3, 2+1)

 

The country never won a medal at the Olympics... as Slovakia... but won 2 in Seoul 1988 as part of the former Czechoslovakia, with the Slovak former world class player Miloš Mečíř entering the history as the very first Olympic champion in M Singles at the return of the sport to the Olympics.

 

This time, Only 3 players will represent the country from under the Tatras in the Tokyo Tennis competition. An all men affair.

 

Norbert Gombos, sometimes spelt Gomboš, 30 years old right handed player, last year Rolland Garros 3rd round participant, finished the Olympic qualifying period outside of the qualifying cut-off ranking as 87th ATP Singles player, but due several withdrawals and removals from the ranking for different reasons he jumped back among the 64 qualified players, Last day of June he was officially invited to take part at the Tokyo 2020 M singles tournament as European Continental Quota holder (Nowadays he is already pretty safe among the direct qualifiers btw). Long time Slovak Davis Cup member will experience his Olympic debut in Tokyo.

 

Filip Polášek, 35 years old, current Slovak Doubles Number 1 player finished the qualifying period in 9th place of the mens doubles ATP ranking, a top 10 rank which secured him a direct automatical Olympic spot in the Mens Doubles. He even had the luxury to select himself his partner for the competition...

He could choose literally anyone he wanted, pending the player would fullfil basic criterias being top 300 ATP Singles or Doubles player with some required Davis Cup starts during the Qualifying cycle...

This year Australian Open winner alongside his long years Doubles partner Ivan Dodig of Croatia, eventually picked the young Lukáš Klein, as his partner for the Tokyo Doubles competition. Lukáš 23 years old former Australian Open Junior doubles runner-up is considered as one of the new talents of our Tennis, currently 257th ATP doubles and 256th Singles player is having this year his best season so far in his young career at the Challenger circuits, with doubles triumph in Cherbourg or final in Zadar among others. The issue was however he never participated in Davis Cups, but not because he did not want to or refused the invitations, he never has been called to the team, because of better ranked players being always chosen, this fact helped at the end our authorities to convince ITF to despite the rules, confirm and allow his place in the M Doubles alongside of Filip Polášek.

 

All 3 our players will play at the Olympics for the first time of their careers.

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On 17/05/2021 at 20:44, rafalgorka said:

Provisional entry lists according to May 17th rankings.

 

Obviously some of the players will choose not to participate (maybe Nadal, Federer, S. Williams...), some others may not be eligible due to not being part of nominated teams for two Davis Cup / Billie Jean King Cup events.

 

 

I found the tennis rule of preference of single players for doubles selection really weird and totally unfair

strength does not come from physical capacity but from an indomitable will. - Gandhi

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