ITF Announces Provisional Olympic Entry List
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) announced the provisional list of the entries for both singles and doubles at the 2016 Rio Olympics Tennis Event, set to take place at the Olympic Tennis Centre in Barra Olympic Park from August 6-14.
The defending champions in the men’s singles, women’s singles, men’s doubles and women’s doubles will return, as Great Britain’s Andy Murray, Serena Williams of the United States, Bob and Mike Bryan of the United States and Serena and her sister Venus are all set to defend their titles.
The entries for the mixed doubles will be announced on site before the tournament.
There will be sixty-four players battling in the men’s and women’s singles divisions while there are thirty-two different doubles tandems vying for gold in the men’s and women’s doubles category.
Below are the names and the countries of the provisional entries for the men’s and women’s singles. Click Here to see the full list.
(FP): Final Qualification Place
(TRI): Tripartite Commission Invitation place
(*): Subject to July Davis Cup participation or ITF Olympic Committee appeal
Men’s Singles
Argentina: Juan Martin del Potro (*), Federico Delbonis, Juan Monaco (*), Guido Pella (*)
Australia: John Millman, Thanasi Kokkinakis
Barbados: Darian King (TRI)
Belgium: David Goffin
Bosnia/Herzegovina: Damir Dzumhur (TRI)
Brazil: Thomaz Bellucci, Rogerio Dutra Silva (*) (FP)
Bulgaria: Grigor Dimitrov
Canada: Milos Raonic, Vasek Pospisil
Chinese Taipei: Lu Yen-Hsun
Croatia: Marin Cilic, Borna Coric
Cyprus: Marcos Baghdatis
Czech Republic: Tomas Berdych, Jiri Vesely, Lukas Rosol
Dominican Republic: Victor Estrella Burgos
France: Richard Gasquet, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Gael Monfils, Gilles Simon
Germany: Phillip Kohlschreiber, Alexander Zverev, Dustin Brown (FP)
Great Britain: Andy Murray, Kyle Edmund (*) (FP)
Israel: Dudi Sela
Italy: Fabio Fognini, Andreas Seppi, Paolo Lorenzi
Japan: Kei Nishikori
Kazakhstan: Mikhail Kukushkin
Latvia: Ernests Gulbis (*)
Lithuania: Ricardas Berankis
Luxembourg: Gilles Muller
Netherlands: Robin Haase (FP)
Poland: Jerzy Janowicz (FP)
Portugal: Joao Sousa, Gastao Elias (FP)
Russia: Andrey Kuznetsov, Evgeny Donskoy
Serbia: Novak Djokovic, Viktor Troicki, Dusan Lajovic, Martin Klizan
Spain: Rafael Nadal (*), David Ferrer, Roberto Bautista-Agut, Albert Ramos-Vinolas (*)
Switzerland: Roger Federer, Stan Wawrinka
Tunisia: Malek Jaziri
Ukraine: Illya Marchenko
Uruguay: Pablo Cuevas
USA: Jack Sock (*), Steve Johnson (*), Denis Kudla (*), Brian Baker (*)
Uzbekistan: Denis Istomin
Women’s Singles
Australia: Samantha Stosur, Daria Gavrilova
Belarus: Victoria Azarenka
Belgium: Yanina Wickmayer, Kirsten Flipkens
Brazil: Teliana Pereira (FP)
Bulgaria: Tsvetana Pironkova (FP)
Canada: Eugenie Bouchard
China: Peng Shuai, Zhang Shuai
Chinese Taipei: Hsieh Su-Wei (FP)
Czech Republic: Petra Kvitova, Karolina Pliskova, Lucie Safarova, Barbora Strycova
Denmark: Caroline Wozniacki
France: Kristina Mladenovic, Caroline Garcia, Alize Cornet
Germany: Angelique Kerber, Andrea Petkovic, Annika Beck, Laure Siegemund
Great Britain: Johanna Konta, Heather Watson
Hungary: Timea Babos
Italy: Roberta Vinci, Sara Errani, Karin Knapp, Francesca Schiavone (FP)
Japan: Misaki Doi, Nao Hibino (FP)
Kazakhstan: Yulia Putintseva, Galina Vosokoboeva
Latvia: Jelena Ostapenko
Liechtenstein: Stephanie Vogt (TRI)
Montenegro: Danka Kovinic
Netherlands: Kiki Bertens
Paraguay: Veronica Cepede Royg (TRI)
Poland: Agineszka Radwanska
Puerto Rico: Monica Puig
Romania: Simona Halep, Irina-Camelia Begu, Monica Niculescu
Russia: Svetlana Kuznetsova, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Daria Kasatkina, Ekaterina Makarova
Serbia: Jelena Jankovic, Ana Ivanovic
Slovakia: Dominika Cibulkova, Anna Karolina Schmiedlova
Spain: Garbine Muguruza, Carla Suarez-Navarro
Sweden: Johanna Larsson
Switzerland: Belinda Bencic, Timea Bacsinszky
Tunisia: Ons Jabeur (FP)
Ukraine: Elina Svitolina, Lesia Tsurenko
USA: Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Madison Keys, Sloane Stephens
