The situation of the ATP and WTA rankings on June 10 will greatly determine which tennis players can attend the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, but there are numerous prerogatives and conditions, as well as other ways to obtain a ticket to the most important event in world sport. We know in depth how the participants are established.
This clay court tour is especially relevant for many players in terms of ranking since what happens on it can establish the presence or absence of some tennis players in the tournaments. Paris 2024 Olympic Games. It is a dream for any athlete to defend the colors of their country in an event of this magnitude, and to be able to compete in the facilities of Roland Garros It is an extra incentive for many. The ITF It is the entity in charge of establishing the classification criteria, which are numerous and complex, so it is worth analyzing them.
As a basic point, it must be stressed that the ATP and WTA ranking that is published on Monday, June 10, will be the one that establishes the fate of many candidates. Thus, what happens throughout the land tour, including Roland Garros 2024, seems decisive to see which tennis players are Olympians this summer. A maximum quota of 12 players per country is established, 6 women and 6 men, and there cannot be more than 4 tennis players of the same nationality in the singles table.
– The 56 best tennis players in the ranking who meet the established conditions will be in Paris 2024
The doubles team has 32 pairs, but we will pay more attention to the singles team, made up of 64 players. In addition to not allowing more than 4 tennis players from the same country, they will not be able to meet each other until the semifinals. The ITF reserves 8 of those 64 available places to distribute based on various aspects that we will later analyze, but the other 56 are awarded strictly by ranking, always taking into account the limitation of the maximum of 4 players per country.
Countries with a notable density of tennis players in the high zone of the classification, such as United States, Italy, France, Spain or Russia (although Russian athletes do not compete under the flag of their country), they will have to witness fierce battles between compatriots during the coming months, in order to be one of the four best players in their country and be able to go to the Games.
There is another condition that always raises many doubts, such as the obligation to have attended two calls of the Davis cup o to Billie Jean-King Cup in recent years, one of them being in the current year. This, very difficult to accomplish for some, has several ways to avoid it, such as injuries, availability to go but no call from the coach or lack of qualifying rounds in which to compete, as is the case of Spain, which upon receiving invitations to the Davis Cup final qualifiers, cannot put Nadal and Alcaraz in competition, who will allege this fact to save their prerogative.
-How are the eight places distributed to the individual teams that do not depend on the ranking?
Once the procedure with the 56 places dependent on the world classification has been established, it remains to discover who the other places correspond to. The champion of the Asian Games, the African Games and the Pan American Games, as well as the runner-up of these, would also obtain their ticket. In the case of the men’s team, they would correspond to Zhizhen Zhang, Moez Echargui, Facundo Díaz Acosta and Tomás Barrios Vera.
There would be four places left, of which one would go to a French tennis player, as it is the organizing country, while the other would be awarded to a tennis player from a country without representation. For example, in Rio 2016 it was Darian King, a player from Barbados, who benefited from this rule. With only two places left to distribute, we would have to talk about the invitations that the ITF reserves for legendary tennis players, whose merits make them worthy of participation, even if they do not meet the requirements.
In this edition, there are numerous candidates for it. Stan Wawrinka, Andy Murray, Dominic Thiem, Caroline Wozniacki o Angelique Kerber they opt for it, but also Rafael Nadal, in case he does not win an important title in the remainder of his clay court tour and, therefore, does not rank among the 56 best in the world. In short, there is a lot to decide until the conclusion of Roland Garros 2024, a tournament that will be key to establishing which tennis players compete in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
2024-04-14 05:44:44
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