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 June 6, 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 from 2013 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 men and 6 women 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 11 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.[3]
Qualified players
| 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 outside direct entry slot |
Men's singles
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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
| No. | CR* | Player A | Player B | NOC | ||||
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| SR†[4] | DR‡[11] | Name | SR†[4] | DR‡[11] | Name | |||
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| 1 | 1 | Jamie Murray |  Great Britain | |||||
| 2 | 2 | Marcelo Melo |  Brazil | |||||
| b | 3 | Nicolas Mahut |  France | |||||
| b | 4 | Pierre-Hugues Herbert | France | |||||
| 3 | 5 | Horia Tecău |  Romania | |||||
| 4 | 5 | Jean-Julien Rojer |  Netherlands | |||||
| 5 | 7 | Bruno Soares | Brazil | |||||
| 6 | 8 | Ivan Dodig |  Croatia | |||||
| 7 | 9 | Bob Bryan |  United States | |||||
| 8 | 9 | Mike Bryan | United States | |||||
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^* Combined Ranking. The best ranking (singles or doubles) of Player A is added to that of Player B to calculate the Combined Ranking.
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^‡ Doubles Ranking
Women's doubles
| No. | CR* | Player A | Player B | NOC | ||||
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| SR†[8] | DR‡[12] | Name | SR†[8] | DR‡[12] | Name | |||
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| 1 | 1 | Martina Hingis |  Switzerland | |||||
| 2 | 1 | Sania Mirza |  India | |||||
| b | 3 | Bethanie Mattek-Sands | United States | |||||
| 3 | 4 | Yaroslava Shvedova |  Kazakhstan | |||||
| 4 | 5 | Lucie Šafářová |  Czech Republic | |||||
| 5 | 6 | Casey Dellacqua |  Australia | |||||
| 6 | 7 | Chan Yung-jan |  Chinese Taipei | |||||
| 7 | 8 | Chan Hao-ching | Chinese Taipei | |||||
| 8 | 9 | Kristina Mladenovic | France | |||||
| 9 | 10 | Lucie Hradecká | Czech Republic | |||||
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^* Combined Ranking. The best ranking (singles or doubles) of Player A is added to that of Player B to calculate the Combined Ranking.
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Mixed doubles
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^* 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
References
- 1 2 "Rio 2016 – ITF Tennis Qualification System" (PDF). IJF. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
- 1 2 "International Tennis Federation: Qualification Details". International Tennis Federation. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
- ↑ Gudris, Erik (6 March 2012). "Olympic Tennis Rules Announced For Singles and Doubles". New York, United States: TennisNow.com. Retrieved 15 May 2012.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "ATP Singles Rankings (as of 4 April 2016)". ATP Tour, Inc.
- 1 2 3 "Davis Cup – Players". ITF. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
- ↑ "Davis Cup – Teams". ITF. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
- ↑ "Top-ranked American tennis player John Isner says no to Rio Olympics". Washington Post. 20 April 2016. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "WTA Rankings (As of 18 April 2016)". WTA. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
- 1 2 3 "Fed Cup – Players". ITF. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
- ↑ "Fed Cup – Teams". ITF. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 "ATP Doubles Rankings (as of 18 April 2016)". ATP Tour, Inc.
- 1 2 3 4 "WTA Doubles Rankings (as of 4 April 2016)". WTA.
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