The classifications ATP y WTA of tennis that will be published this Monday, in addition to reflecting the variations derived from the results of Roland Garros, will serve to determine the 86 men and 86 women who will play the Olympic tennis tournament from July 24.
The International Federation (ITF) moved the cut-off date to June 14 when the French Grand Slam was postponed, to allow time for the rankings to reflect what happened on the Paris slopes.
The maximum number of players admitted to the Games will be 12 per country, six per sex: up to four for individual tournaments, plus another two for doubles.
In individual, Monday’s classifications will serve to award 56 Olympic tickets to as many men and women. Eight more places will be awarded by the ITF, until completing the two 64-player draw.
If in those first 56 positions there is a country with more than four players, it is the four best classified that will obtain the place for the Games, according to the rules agreed by the ITF and the IOC, and the list will run to admit tennis players from other countries.
Players must have been nominated at least three times between 2019 and 2020 to participate in the Davis Cup o la Copa Billie Jean King (formerly the Federation Cup), or only two if they have a high number of participations during their career (20 weeks, with matches both at home and away).
However, injuries, the appearance of new figures who have not had time to meet these requirements, the excess of well-classified players in a country that leads others to stay out of these team tournaments, a historic participation in these or in the Olympic Games Or, as a novelty in this edition, the postponement by the Davis or Billie Jean King covid-19, may lead a panel of experts to admit exceptions to this rule.
As for the 8 places awarded by the ITF, they are based on continental balance criteria. In the case of America, it was decided that the two finalists of the Pan American Games in Lima 2019, which were Argentina, would obtain an Olympic place. Nadia Podoroska, the american Caroline Dolehide, the brazilian João Menezes and the chilean Thomas Barrios.
In the rest of the continents, the best classified from a country still without quotas will benefit from an Olympic place.
The doubles draw will admit 32 pairs, one of them always from the organizing country, Japan.
The players who appear in the top 10 of the doubles rankings this Monday are guaranteed an Olympic place, but their partner must be at least among the 300 best in the world.
The combined ranking of the two players in each pair will serve to determine the rest of the participants.
The Olympic mixed doubles tournament will admit fifteen couples, plus the local one. Teams will be made up of players already qualified for the singles or doubles draw.
The ITF The provisional list of classifieds will be made official on the 16th and the National Olympic Committees will have until the 22nd to confirm the tennis players who will participate in the individual tournament and propose their doubles pairs. In case of resignation of a player, the list and the ITF You must re-allocate places before July 5.
However, modifications will be allowed until, already in the Games, the first round of each tournament concludes.
The participation rules also require a minimum age for the tennis players who will compete for the Olympic medals: 14 years for men, 15 for women.
