Tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification explained

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See main article: Tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Qualification for tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil was not determined 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 were the ATP and WTA ranking lists published on 6 June 2016. The players entering were formally submitted by the International Tennis Federation. The ATP and WTA rankings were based on performances from the previous 52 weeks, and there were 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 had to be part of a nominated team for three Fed Cup (women) or Davis Cup (men) events between the 2012 and 2016 Olympics. This requirement was 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 had represented their nation at least twenty times. All players were required to have been part of a nominated team for a Fed/Davis Cup event in 2015 or 2016, and to have had a good standing with their National Olympic Committee.[1] [2]

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) could 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 was eligible, and NOC's had the option to enter players of a lower rank. Athletes were able to compete in both singles and doubles events.[1] [2] Doubles players within the top 10 rankings on 6 June were eligible to bring any player provided that player had any doubles or singles ranking, and the number of players of the same country did 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]

aPlayer did not participate as a result of injury or the choice not to compete
bPlayer had not met the minimal Fed/Davis Cup representation level
cPlayer was ineligible due to too many players from a certain country
bgcolor=HoneyDewdPlayer had retired from the sport
ePlayer was suspended from competition
fPlayer received special dispensation for the Davis Cup/Fed Cup requirements from the ITF

Men's singles

No.Rank[5] width=200Playerwidth=200NOCwidth=80ATP PointsNOC RankCareer Davis Cup nom.[6] Years in Zonal RR[7] 2013–16 Davis Cup nom.2015–16 Davis Cup nom.
World Ranking
11Novak Djokovic16950123062
22Andy Murray8915120085
a[8] 3Roger Federer665527061
3f[9] 4Rafael Nadal5405117021
a[10] 5Stan Wawrinka530525081
46Kei Nishikori4290111063
a[11] 7Dominic Thiem31053032
5f7PR(223)Juan Martín del Potro230111021
a[12] 8Tomáš Berdych303029081
a[13] 9Milos Raonic296513061
a[14] 10Richard Gasquet272516062
611David Goffin2840110095
712Jo-Wilfried Tsonga2725117093
813Marin Čilić2605117052
914David Ferrer2560221031
1015Gaël Monfils2290213062
1116Roberto Bautista Agut215033042
a[15] 17John Isner210012073
1218Gilles Simon1855311043
a[16] 19Nick Kyrgios18555041
b20Kevin Anderson17605000
1321Viktor Troicki1670219053
a[17] b22Feliciano López163022021
a[18] 23Bernard Tomic162511063
14f24Benoît Paire159640000
1525Pablo Cuevas1450120021
1626Philipp Kohlschreiber1450117063
1727Jack Sock141513033
b28Ivo Karlović136019000
B29Lucas Pouille13111011
1830João Sousa1275119094
a[19] 31Alexandr Dolgopolov12606041
19f32Albert Ramos-Viñolas119041010
bc33Jérémy Chardy11752000
2034Fabio Fognini1170116093
2135Federico Delbonis116525054
2236Grigor Dimitrov115018031
a[20] 37Sam Querrey11359061
a[21] 38Alexander Zverev11301011
23f39Steve Johnson111021011
2440Andreas Seppi10952240104
a[22] 41Marcos Baghdatis106020432
2542Andrey Kuznetsov101814042
b43Pablo Carreño Busta9951011
2644Gilles Müller985126031
bc45Marcel Granollers9728030
2746Vasek Pospisil955114082
2846PR(94)Juan Mónaco620317061
b47Nicolás Almagro9447020
2948Borna Ćorić93527074
c49Nicolas Mahut9313033
30f50Guido Pella92841022
a[23] 51Martin Kližan92515083
a[24] 52Fernando Verdasco90019031
b53Guillermo García-López9001010
3154Ričardas Berankis885116084
b55Adrian Mannarino8600000
32f56Denis Kudla85830000
33f56PR(596)Brian Baker5040000
3457Paolo Lorenzi85539084
b58Aljaž Bedene8450000
b59Ernests Gulbis83619050
b60Paul-Henri Mathieu8166000
a[25] 61Mikhail Kukushkin79717083
3562Thomaz Bellucci790117073
3663Malek Jaziri787119143
3764Denis Istomin771125083
b65Taylor Fritz7680000
38f66John Millman75810000
a[26] 67Jiří Veselý75810094
3968Dudi Sela746123072
c69Diego Schwartzman7463033
a[27] 70Ivan Dodig74314053
4071Lukáš Rosol7351160134
b72Rajeev Ram7330000
4173Illya Marchenko726115072
b74Íñigo Cervantes7130000
c75Donald Young7123032
b76Mikhail Youzhny70730000
4277Evgeny Donskoy70726064
4378Víctor Estrella Burgos705135073
b79Pierre-Hugues Herbert6971011
a80Dušan Lajović6916052
b81Tommy Robredo68515021
4481PR(328)Thanasi Kokkinakis14524043
4582Robin Haase685117072
4683Rogério Dutra Silva68426051
47f84Kyle Edmund67622022
c85Leonardo Mayer6759064
48f86Dustin Brown67023022
4987Damir Džumhur667114072
5088Gastão Elias657213083
51f89Jan-Lennard Struff65032021
52f[28] 90Jordan Thompson64330000
b91Stéphane Robert6380000
b92Horacio Zeballos6348050
a[29] 93Daniel Evans6219042-bgcolor=#FAE7B5f94Juan Mónaco620317061-->
5394PR(120)Jerzy Janowicz506117083
b95Facundo Bagnis6200000
5496Teymuraz Gabashvili616311053
5597Lu Yen-hsun615118033
a98Karen Khachanov5893031
b99Bjorn Fratangelo5830000
a100Sergiy Stakhovsky56624092
56101Nikoloz Basilashvili56315333
ITF places
57f106Yūichi Sugita551212040
58108Taro Daniel54433032
59110Andrej Martin53716063
60f112Thomas Fabbiano53640000
61113Radu Albot534116082
62115Sam Groth52045054
Tripartite Commission Invitation
63130Mirza Bašić447219074
64[30] 278Darian King181113094
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

No.Rank[31] width=200Playerwidth=140NOCwidth=70Current WTA Pointswidth=70NOC Rankwidth=70Career Fed Cup Nom.[32] width=70Years in Zonal RR[33] width=702013–16 Fed Cup Nom.width=702015–16 Fed Cup Nom.
World Ranking
11Serena Williams8330110032
22Angelique Kerber6500113084
33Garbiñe Muguruza548213033
44Agnieszka Radwańska5335116162
a5Simona Halep47928153
a[34] 6Victoria Azarenka422112133
57Roberta Vinci3405129062
a[35] 8Belinda Bencic32607042
69Venus Williams3116212032
710Timea Bacsinszky2800119074
811Petra Kvitová2768119083
912Svetlana Kuznetsova2755119033
d13Flavia Pennetta272321021
1014Samantha Stosur2700124073
1115Carla Suárez Navarro2695212042
1216Madison Keys259233031
a[36] 17Karolína Plíšková23605044
1318Johanna Konta225015341
1419Elina Svitolina222616241
1520Sloane Stephens215045031
a[37] 21Dominika Cibulková208119052
1622Sara Errani2030220073
1723Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova1960210043
a[38] 24Jelena Janković194020121
1825Ana Ivanovic1910212141
e26Maria Sharapova19016022
1927Kiki Bertens182118164
2027PR(265)Peng Shuai169110421
2128Irina-Camelia Begu176519153
2229Lucie Šafářová1673220071
2330Barbora Strýcová1640315054
24f31Daria Kasatkina161833022
2532Kristina Mladenovic155019074
2633Andrea Petkovic1485214074
2734Caroline Wozniacki138619133
a[39] 35Yulia Putintseva13853332
2836Ekaterina Makarova138249041
29[40] 37Monica Niculescu1365212153
3038Caroline Garcia136527064
3139Jeļena Ostapenko136214442
3240Anna Karolína Schmiedlová134016054
3341Annika Beck133533032
34f42Laura Siegemund133540000
c43Coco Vandeweghe13024033
a[41] 44Lesia Tsurenko13019152
3545Tímea Babos126015331
3645PR(93)Karin Knapp76438041
3746Misaki Doi123018151
a[42] 47Camila Giorgi12305053
3848Eugenie Bouchard123027151
3949Monica Puig122016421
4050Yanina Wickmayer1215116242
41f51Daria Gavrilova112021011
bc52Anna-Lena Friedsam11000000
c53Elena Vesnina109915063
4254Danka Kovinić108515421
4355Johanna Larsson1083116051
4456Heather Watson108127442
b57Mirjana Lučić-Baroni10585400
c58Margarita Gasparyan10523022
4559Alizé Cornet1035316051
c60Shelby Rogers10310000
4661Kirsten Flipkens1025222142
4762Zhang Shuai1009210422
c63Sabine Lisicki100211052
b64Kateryna Bondarenko99313222
a[43] 64PR(451)Galina Voskoboeva6783104
bc65Varvara Lepchenko9932020
bc66Mona Barthel9751010
c67Christina McHale9608032
bc68Madison Brengle9501000
48f69Nao Hibino94921111
bc70Irina Falconi9450000
4971Tsvetana Pironkova944115442
a[44] 72Hsieh Su-wei9449222
5073Wang Qiang93935442
bc74Louisa Chirico9300000
bc75Nicole Gibbs9060000
5176Ana Konjuh89913432
5277Çağla Büyükakçay899113442
ITF places
5379Mariana Duque Mariño876112431
5484Polona Hercog80019033
5585Magda Linette79123011
5686Zheng Saisai79042011
5792Teliana Pereira76818042
58188Ons Jabeur28714084
Tripartite Commission Invitation
59136Verónica Cepede Royg425110373
60274Stephanie Vogt16117442
Alternates[45]
6194Yaroslava Shvedova75418352
62119Aleksandra Krunić527313073
63157Lucie Hradecká362412062
64158Andreea Mitu36132122

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

width=20 rowspan="2"No.width=20 rowspan="2"width=240 colspan="3"Player Awidth=240 colspan="3"Player Bwidth=140 rowspan="2"NOC
width=20width=20[46] width=200Namewidth=20width=20width=200Name
World Ranking
14793Pierre-Hugues Herbertf491Nicolas Mahut
242142Andy Murray2Jamie Murray
31711Florin Mergea6Horia Tecău
48982170Robin Haase7Jean-Julien Rojer
5178Marcelo Melo9Bruno Soares
65610Rohan Bopanna46Leander Paes
Other entrants
7224144Rafael Nadalf18Marc López
8241154Novak Djokovic23Nenad Zimonjić
92715593Gael Monfils12360Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
103016291Roberto Bautista Agut14David Ferrer
1133-13Daniel Nestor4620Vasek Pospisil
124359522Łukasz Kubot21Marcin Matkowski
134913357Marin Čilić36PRMarin Draganja
145427Juan Sebastián Cabal27Robert Farah
156149Chris Guccione12John Peers
166344Oliver Marachf19Alexander Peya
17633942Steve Johnsonf2724Jack Sock
18657PR588Juan Martín del Potro14058Máximo Gonzálezf
19743460Fabio Fognini4079Andreas Seppi
208556PR259Brian Bakerf7229Rajeev Ramf
218635153Federico Delbonis124851Guillermo Duránf
228654Colin Flemingf32Dominic Inglot
238963Aliaksandr Bury26Max Mirnyi
a11526186Philipp Kohlschreiber89177Jan-Lennard Struff
ITF places
2410271104Lukáš Rosol12931Radek Štěpánek
2510764Marcus Daniell91543Michael Venus
261156284Thomaz Bellucci53André Sá
2712761Julio Peraltaf21066Hans Podlipnik-Castillo
2814311074Andrej Martin69Igor Zelenay
2914873601Illya Marchenko22975Denys Molchanov
3017950Santiago González129Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela
31210105Sanchai Ratiwatana105Sonchat Ratiwatana
Alternates
321183099João Sousa88158Gastão Elias

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

width=20 rowspan="2"No.width=20 rowspan="2"width=240 colspan="3"Player Awidth=240 colspan="3"Player Bwidth=140 rowspan="2"NOC
width=20width=20[47] width=200Namewidth=20width=20width=200Name
World Ranking
1121Martina Hingis11363Timea Bacsinszky
21911Sania Mirza587190Prarthana Thombare
37383Caroline Garcia324Kristina Mladenovic
4117155Chan Yung-jan6Chan Hao-ching
519537Elena Vesnina3512Ekaterina Makarova
6191948Yaroslava Shvedova458183Galina Voskoboeva
729889Bethanie Mattek-Sandsf3020Coco Vandeweghe
82115710Lucie Hradecká20711Andrea Hlaváčková
Other entrants
991251Serena Williams8251Venus Williams
1014240Garbiñe Muguruza1221Carla Suárez Navarro
1128778Roberta Vinci2125Sara Errani
12347916Zheng Saisai27718Xu Yifan
13391061Svetlana Kuznetsova2952Daria Kasatkina[48]
14424204Angelique Kerber38126Andrea Petkovic
15442914Lucie Šafářová3042Barbora Strýcová
16532742Irina-Camelia Begu3726Monica Niculescu
176030Anabel Medina Garrigues30Arantxa Parra Santonja
186927Anna-Lena Grönefeld4246Laura Siegemund
197120176Elina Svitolina18651Olga Savchuk
207216168Samantha Stosur56201Daria Gavrilova
217419120Johanna Konta55119Heather Watson
22802486Jelena Janković12056Aleksandra Krunić
a8939Chuang Chia-jung7250Hsieh Su-wei
239063456Zhang Shuai27PR147Peng Shuai
ITF places
249249644Gabriela Dabrowski48380Eugenie Bouchard
2511049117Misaki Doi20061Eri Hozumi
2613236063Lyudmyla Kichenok37769Nadiia Kichenok
2713555Raluca Olaru15880Andreea Mitu
2813564Klaudia Jans-Ignacik19671Paula Kania
2913648538Anastasia Rodionova20598Arina Rodionova[49]
302094413Tímea Babos242196Réka Luca Jani
3123988Teliana Pereira174151Paula Cristina Gonçalves
Alternates
32[50] 11150512Yanina Wickmayer61111Kirsten Flipkens

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

width=20 rowspan="2"No.width=20 rowspan="2"width=240 colspan="3"Player Awidth=240 colspan="3"Player Bwidth=140 rowspan="2"NOC
width=20width=20width=200Namewidth=20width=20width=200Name
World Ranking
14383Caroline Garcia491Nicolas Mahut
26230Garbiñe Muguruza4144Rafael Nadalf
37324Kristina Mladenovic793Pierre-Hugues Herbertf
4111Sania Mirza10Rohan Bopanna
52018146Johanna Konta2Jamie Murray
6253Agnieszka Radwańska59522Łukasz Kubot
72614161Samantha Stosur12John Peers
8291515Carla Suárez Navarro14David Ferrer
933889Bethanie Mattek-Sandsf2724Jack Sock
10342736Kiki Bertens7Jean-Julien Rojer
11342840Irina-Camelia Begu6Horia Tecău
a373726Monica Niculescu11Florin Mergea
ITF places
12389248Venus Williams7229Rajeev Ramf
1341782Roberta Vinci3460Fabio Fognini
144115710Lucie Hradecká12931Radek Štěpánek
1510092660Teliana Pereira8Marcelo Melo
Alternates
165856142Heather Watson2142Andy Murray

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

External links

Notes and References

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  10. Web site: Stan Wawrinka déclare forfait pour les JO de Rio. August 2, 2016 . 20 minutes. August 2, 2016 .
  11. Web site: Feliciano López y Dominic Thiem renuncian a Río 2016. 12 May 2016. Todo Sobre Tenis. 12 May 2016.
  12. Web site: Tomas Berdych: World number eight pulls out of Olympic Games. 16 July 2016. bbc.com. British Broadcasting Corporation. 16 July 2016.
  13. Web site: Rio 2016: Simona Halep and Milos Raonic withdraw from Olympics over Zika virus. 15 July 2016. BBC.com. British Broadcasting Corporation. 15 July 2016.
  14. Web site: Richard Gasquet out of Olympic Games with back injury. Charles. Andy. 20 July 2016. skysports.com. British Sky Broadcasting. 28 July 2016.
  15. News: Top-ranked American tennis player John Isner says no to Rio Olympics. 20 April 2016. Washington Post. 21 April 2016.
  16. News: Nick Kyrgios pulls out of Australia's Rio 2016 Olympics team, slams AOC's 'unjust treatment'. 3 June 2016. 3 June 2016. ABC News.
  17. Web site: Feliciano López renuncia a disputar los Juegos Olímpicos de Río 2016. 12 May 2016. Marca. 12 May 2016.
  18. Web site: Rio 2016: Bernard Tomic confirms he will not compete in the Olympic tennis event. Pearce. Linda. 13 May 2016. Sydney Morning Herald. 13 May 2016.
  19. Web site: Dolgopolov refused to compete at the Olympics in Rio because of the virus zika. 23 June 2016. reporter-ua.ru. 1 July 2016.
  20. News: Why John Isner and Sam Querrey won't represent the United States at the Rio Olympics. 22 July 2016. The Washington Post. 31 July 2016.
  21. https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-olympics-rio-tennis-zverev/zverev-pulls-out-of-rio-for-fitness-reasons-idUKKCN10B0NP Reuters
  22. Web site: Rio 2016: Marcos Baghdatis opts out of Olympics with elbow injury. BBC.com. 29 July 2016.
  23. Web site: Martin Klizan no a Rio per colpa di Zika. 27 July 2016 . Livetennis.it . 27 July 2016 .
  24. Web site: Jugadores. www.abiertoloscabos.com. 11 June 2016.
  25. Web site: Kukushkin not to compete at Rio-2016. 19 July 2016. www.inform.kz. 28 July 2016.
  26. News: Vesely joins Czech Olympic exit. 26 July 2016 . . 26 July 2016 .
  27. Web site: Teniski savez objavio je popis: Ivan Dodig ne putuje na Igre.... 1 July 2016. hr. ITF Published entry list: Dodig will not travel to Rio. 28 July 2016.
  28. Web site: Thompson wins spot in Oly tennis team. 17 July 2016. www.sbs.com.au. SBS. 17 July 2016.
  29. News: Evans says no to Rio after Berdych worries over zika. Devlin. Anthony. 18 July 2016. The Times. 30 July 2016.
  30. Web site: ITF announces entries for Rio 2016 Olympics. ITF. dead. 8 February 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20160703075219/https://www.itftennis.com/news/232270.aspx. 3 July 2016. 30 June 2016.
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  32. Web site: Fed Cup – Players. ITF. 20 April 2016.
  33. Web site: Fed Cup – Teams. ITF. 20 April 2016.
  34. Web site: Victoria Azarenka is pregnant, will miss Rio Games. Ackerman. Jon. 15 July 2016. NBCsports.com. NBCUniversal Media. 15 July 2016.
  35. Web site: Rio 2016: après Federer, Belinda Bencic déclare aussi forfait!. 16 July 2016. rts.ch. RTS Sport. 16 July 2016.
  36. Web site: Berdych a Plíšková nepojedou do Ria kvůli obavám z viru zika. 16 July 2016. Tennisportal.cz. LiveSport Media. 16 July 2016.
  37. Web site: Slovak athletes head for Rio, without Cibulková. 1 August 2016. spectator.sme.sk. The Slovak Spectator. 1 August 2016.
  38. Web site: Jelena Jankovic withdraws from Olympics. 8 August 2016. inserbia.info. InSerbia News. 8 August 2016.
  39. Web site: В Олимпиаде-2016 примет участие наименьшее число спортсменов из Казахстана за последние 20 лет. 29 July 2016. sports.kz. 29 July 2016.
  40. Web site: Monica Niculescu ar putea lipsi de la Rio! . 2 August 2016. click.ro. 2 August 2016.
  41. Web site: Krunic pour Mladenovic - Jeux Olympiques - We love tennis !. Revol. Loïc. 7 August 2016. www.welovetennis.fr. 7 August 2016.
  42. Web site: ESPN. Camila Giorgi severs ties with Italian federation, risks Olympics. 12 April 2016. 30 June 2016.
  43. Web site: Yaroslava Shvedova to play in the single category instead of Galina Voskoboyeva at the Rio Olympics. 6 August 2016. BNews.kz. 7 August 2016.
  44. Web site: Hsieh Su-wei's withdrawal from Olympics confirmed Entertainment & Sports FOCUS TAIWAN - CNA ENGLISH NEWS. Tang. Pei-chun. Chen. Christie. 7 August 2016. Focus Taiwan. The Central News Agency. 7 August 2016.
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  48. Web site: Мыскина: хотели, чтобы на Играх сыграл дуэт Кузнецова/Гаспарян, но у Риты травма. 14 July 2016. www.championat.com. ru. Myskina: we wanted Kuznetsova and Gasparyan to play doubles at the Olympics, but Rita has been injured. 18 July 2016.
  49. Web site: Tennis: Rodionova Sisters Called up to Rio. rio2016.olympics.com.au. 2 August 2016.
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