Tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification
Qualification for tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is determined not by any form of qualifying tournament, but by the rankings maintained by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) and the Women's Tennis Association (WTA).
Qualifying criteria
The main qualifying criteria will be the ATP and WTA ranking lists to be published on 6 June 2016. The players entering are formally submitted by the International Tennis Federation. The ATP and WTA rankings are based on performances from the previous 52 weeks, and there are several tournaments in the two-month period between the time of the rankings being frozen for entry and the beginning of the tennis events at the Olympics. Players must be part of a nominated team for three Fed Cup (women) or Davis Cup (men) events between the 2012 and 2016 Olympics. This requirement is reduced to two Fed/Davis Cup events during the Olympic cycle from 2012 to 2016 if their nation competed at the Zone Group round robin level for three of the four years or if the player has represented their nation at least twenty times. All players must have been part of a nominated team for a Fed/Davis Cup event in 2015 or 2016, and have a good standing with their National Olympic Committee.[1][2]
Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) can enter 6 male and 6 female athletes, with a maximum of 4 entries in the individual events, and 2 pairs in the doubles events. Any player in the world's top 56 is eligible, and NOC's have the option to enter players of a lower rank. Athletes are able to compete in both singles and doubles events.[1][2] Doubles players within the top 10 rankings on 6 June are eligible to bring any player provided that player has any doubles or singles ranking, and the number of players of the same country do not surpass the total of six.[1]
Qualified players
This is the final list of qualified players as published by the ITF on 5 August 2016.[3][4]
a | Player did not participate as a result of injury or the choice not to compete |
b | Player had not met the minimal Fed/Davis Cup representation level |
c | Player is ineligible due to too many players from a certain country |
d | Player has retired from the sport |
e | Player is suspended from competition |
f | Player received special dispensation for the Davis Cup/Fed Cup requirements from the ITF |
Men's singles
Aljaž Bedene has previously represented Slovenia, making him ineligible for Great Britain. His nominations for Slovenian Davis Cup team are not counted here.
Women's singles
^* Years spent exclusively in the Zonal Round Robin format during the four-year Olympic cycle
^† Including the 2012 Fed Cup World Group Final
Men's doubles
^* Combined Ranking. The best ranking (singles or doubles) of Player A is added to that of Player B to calculate the Combined Ranking.
^† Singles Ranking
^‡ Doubles Ranking
Women's doubles
^* Combined Ranking. The best ranking (singles or doubles) of Player A is added to that of Player B to calculate the Combined Ranking.
^† Singles Ranking
^‡ Doubles Ranking
Mixed doubles
No. | CR* | Player A | Player B | NOC | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SR† | DR‡ | Name | SR† | DR‡ | Name | |||
World Ranking | ||||||||
1 | 4 | 38 | 3 | Caroline Garcia | 49 | 1 | Nicolas Mahut | France |
2 | 6 | 2 | 30 | Garbiñe Muguruza | 4 | 144 | Rafael Nadalf | Spain |
3 | 7 | 32 | 4 | Kristina Mladenovic | 79 | 3 | Pierre-Hugues Herbertf | France |
4 | 11 | – | 1 | Sania Mirza | – | 10 | Rohan Bopanna | India |
5 | 20 | 18 | 146 | Johanna Konta | – | 2 | Jamie Murray | Great Britain |
6 | 25 | 3 | – | Agnieszka Radwańska | 595 | 22 | Łukasz Kubot | Poland |
7 | 26 | 14 | 161 | Samantha Stosur | – | 12 | John Peers | Australia |
8 | 29 | 15 | 15 | Carla Suárez Navarro | 14 | – | David Ferrer | Spain |
9 | 33 | 88 | 9 | Bethanie Mattek-Sandsf | 27 | 24 | Jack Sock | United States |
10 | 34 | 27 | 36 | Kiki Bertens | – | 7 | Jean-Julien Rojer | Netherlands |
11 | 34 | 28 | 40 | Irina-Camelia Begu | – | 6 | Horia Tecău | Romania |
a | 37 | 37 | 26 | Monica Niculescu | – | 11 | Florin Mergea | Romania |
ITF Places | ||||||||
12 | 38 | 9 | 248 | Venus Williams | 72 | 29 | Rajeev Ramf | United States |
13 | 41 | 7 | 82 | Roberta Vinci | 34 | 60 | Fabio Fognini | Italy |
14 | 41 | 157 | 10 | Lucie Hradecká | 129 | 31 | Radek Štěpánek | Czech Republic |
15 | 100 | 92 | 660 | Teliana Pereira | – | 8 | Marcelo Melo | Brazil |
Alternates | ||||||||
16 | 58 | 56 | 142 | Heather Watson | 2 | 142 | Andy Murray | Great Britain |
^* Combined Ranking. The best ranking (singles or doubles) of Player A is added to that of Player B to calculate the Combined Ranking.
^† Singles Ranking
^‡ Doubles Ranking
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