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Post by reckoner Wed 18 Jul 2012, 5:17 pm

The ITF announced that the draw for the Olympics will be held on the 26th of July and will comprise the top 56 from the latest rankings available (as at Monday 23rd July) and 8 wild cards. (Thanks to zaron and Woestijnrog).

Players from the same country will be placed in different halves (or quarters if more than 2).

Exciting huh? Which match-ups are you most looking forward to? Which country will be the most successful?

The wild cards are (I'm quoting Woestijnrog here, thanks again!):

Ungur Adrian (ROU)
Stakhovsky Sergiy (UKR)
Pospisil Vasek (CAN)
Kavcic Blaz (SLO)
Jaziri Malek (TUN)
Hewitt Lleyton (AUS)
Devvarman Somdev (IND)
Bellucci Thomaz (BRA)


Here's the current top 56 for reference:

1 Roger Federer SUI
2 Novak Djokovic SRB
3 Rafael Nadal ESP
4 Andy Murray GBR
5 David Ferrer ESP
6 Jo Wilfried Tsonga FRA
7 Tomas Berdych CZE
8 Janko Tipsarevic SRB
9 Juan Martin Del Potro ARG
10 John Isner USA
11 Nicolas Almagro ESP
12 Juan Monaco ARG
13 Mardy Fish USA
14 Gilles Simon FRA
15 Marin Cilic CRO
16 Fernando Verdasco ESP
17 Gael Monfils FRA
18 Alexandr Dolgopolov UKR
19 Kei Nishikori JPN
20 Marcel Granollers ESP
21 Richard Gasquet FRA
22 Philipp Kohlschreiber GER
23 Milos Raonic CAN
24 Florian Mayer GER
25 Stanislas Wawrinka SUI
26 Radek Stepanek CZE
27 Andy Roddick USA
28 Andreas Seppi ITA
29 Mikhail Youzhny RUS
30 Feliciano Lopez ESP
31 Viktor Troicki SRB
32 Julien Benneteau FRA
33 Kevin Anderson RSA
34 Denis Istomin UZB
35 Jurgen Melzer AUT
36 Pablo Andujar ESP
37 Carlos Berlocq ARG
38 David Nalbandian ARG
39 Jarkko Nieminen FIN
40 Robin Haase NED
41 Santiago Giraldo COL
42 Marcos Baghdatis CYP
43 Tommy Haas GER
44 Albert Ramos ESP
45 Nikolay Davydenko RUS
46 Bernard Tomic AUS
47 Benoit Paire FRA
48 Alejandro Falla COL
49 Ryan Harrison USA
50 Jeremy Chardy FRA
51 Alex Bogomolov Jr RUS
52 Lukas Lacko SVK
53 Go Soeda JPN
54 Sam Querrey USA
55 Juan Carlos Ferrero ESP
56 Ivo Karlovic CRO


Last edited by reckoner on Thu 19 Jul 2012, 10:33 am; edited 1 time in total (Reason for editing : updated with info from zaron and Woestijnrog)

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Post by zaron Wed 18 Jul 2012, 6:05 pm

I got this from wikipedia

"For the singles competitions, the top 56 players in the world rankings on 11 June 2012 of the WTA and ATP tours will qualify for the Olympics. However, entry is limited to four players from a country."

"Of the other eight wildcard slots, six of the slots will be determined by the ITF's Olympic Committee, taking into account ranking and spread of nations represented, while the final two slots will be awarded by the IOC to players from small nations."

The biggest name among the wildcards is Lleyton Hewitt.

The biggest casualty of the four player per country rule is Feliciano López.

A player also needs to of been available to play Davis cup for 2 out of the past 4 years, which removes Alexandr Dolgopolov and Kevin Anderson.

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Post by Danny_1982 Wed 18 Jul 2012, 7:32 pm

What I'm interested in is how the fact players are representing their country changes their opinion on who they want to win.

For example, I know there's a lot of British tennis fans on here who aren't that keen / not bothered about Murray... But now it's about team GB, so does that alter anyone's opinion? Would British people rather their favourite player got a gold, rather than their country getting a gold?

By the way, each to their own... I'm not saying either way is wrong or right.

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Post by bogbrush Wed 18 Jul 2012, 9:00 pm

Not me, I couldn't are less about nationality.
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Post by Guest Wed 18 Jul 2012, 9:29 pm

reckoner wrote:The ITF announced that the draw for the Olympics will be held on the 26th of July and will comprise the top 64 from the latest rankings available (as at Monday 23rd July).

Players from the same country will be placed in different halves (or quarters if more than 2).

Exciting huh? Which match-ups are you most looking forward to? Which country will be the most successful?

Here's the current top 64 for reference:

1 Roger Federer GOAT
2 Novak Djokovic SRB
3 Rafael Nadal ESP
4 Andy Murray GBR
5 David Ferrer ESP
6 Jo Wilfried Tsonga FRA
7 Tomas Berdych CZE
8 Janko Tipsarevic SRB
9 Juan Martin Del Potro ARG
10 John Isner USA
11 Nicolas Almagro ESP
12 Juan Monaco ARG
13 Mardy Fish USA
14 Gilles Simon FRA
15 Marin Cilic CRO
16 Fernando Verdasco ESP
17 Gael Monfils FRA
18 Alexandr Dolgopolov UKR
19 Kei Nishikori JPN
20 Marcel Granollers ESP
21 Richard Gasquet FRA
22 Philipp Kohlschreiber GER
23 Milos Raonic CAN
24 Florian Mayer GER
25 Stanislas Wawrinka SUI
26 Radek Stepanek CZE
27 Andy Roddick USA
28 Andreas Seppi ITA
29 Mikhail Youzhny RUS
30 Feliciano Lopez ESP
31 Viktor Troicki SRB
32 Julien Benneteau FRA
33 Kevin Anderson RSA
34 Denis Istomin UZB
35 Jurgen Melzer AUT
36 Pablo Andujar ESP
37 Carlos Berlocq ARG
38 David Nalbandian ARG
39 Jarkko Nieminen FIN
40 Robin Haase NED
41 Santiago Giraldo COL
42 Marcos Baghdatis CYP
43 Tommy Haas GER
44 Albert Ramos ESP
45 Nikolay Davydenko RUS
46 Bernard Tomic AUS
47 Benoit Paire FRA
48 Alejandro Falla COL
49 Ryan Harrison USA
50 Jeremy Chardy FRA
51 Alex Bogomolov Jr RUS
52 Lukas Lacko SVK
53 Go Soeda JPN
54 Sam Querrey USA
55 Juan Carlos Ferrero ESP
56 Ivo Karlovic CRO
57 Donald Young USA
58 Mikhail Kukushkin KAZ
59 Grigor Dimitrov BUL
60 Martin Klizan SVK
61 Thomaz Bellucci BRA
62 David Goffin BEL
63 Leonardo Mayer ARG
64 Fabio Fognini ITA

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Post by Woestijnrog Wed 18 Jul 2012, 9:54 pm

These are the players for the men's singles:
  1. Almagro Nicolas (ESP)
  2. Baghdatis Marcos (CYP)
  3. Bellucci Thomaz (BRA)
  4. Berdych Tomas (CZE)
  5. Berlocq Carlos (ARG)
  6. Bogomolov Jr Alex (RUS)
  7. Cilic Marin (CRO)
  8. Darcis Steve (BEL)
  9. Davydenko Nikolay (RUS)
  10. Del Potro Juan Martin (ARG)
  11. Devvarman Somdev (IND)
  12. Dimitrov Grigor (BUL)
  13. Djokovic Novak (SRB)
  14. Dodig Ivan (CRO)
  15. Falla Alejandro (COL)
  16. Federer Roger (SUI)
  17. Ferrer David (ESP)
  18. Fognini Fabio (ITA)
  19. Gasquet Richard (FRA)
  20. Giraldo Santiago (COL)
  21. Goffin David (BEL)
  22. Haase Robin (NED)
  23. Harrison Ryan (USA)
  24. Hewitt Lleyton (AUS)
  25. Isner John (USA)
  26. Istomin Denis (UZB)
  27. Ito Tatsuma (JPN)
  28. Jaziri Malek (TUN)
  29. Karlovic Ivo (CRO)
  30. Kavcic Blaz (SLO)
  31. Klizan Martin (SVK)
  32. Kohlschreiber Philipp (GER)
  33. Kubot Lukasz (POL)
  34. Kukushkin Mikhail (KAZ)
  35. Lacko Lukas (SVK)
  36. Lu Yen-Hsun (TPE)
  37. Melzer Jurgen (AUT)
  38. Monaco Juan (ARG)
  39. Monfils Gael (FRA)
  40. Muller Gilles (LUX)
  41. Murray Andy (GBR)
  42. Nadal Rafael (ESP)
  43. Nalbandian David (ARG)
  44. Nieminen Jarkko (FIN)
  45. Nishikori Kei (JPN)
  46. Pospisil Vasek (CAN)
  47. Raonic Milos (CAN)
  48. Rochus Olivier (BEL)
  49. Roddick Andy (USA)
  50. Seppi Andreas (ITA)
  51. Simon Gilles (FRA)
  52. Soeda Go (JPN)
  53. Stakhovsky Sergiy (UKR)
  54. Stepanek Radek (CZE)
  55. Tipsarevic Janko (SRB)
  56. Tomic Bernard (AUS)
  57. Troicki Viktor (SRB)
  58. Tsonga Jo-Wilfried (FRA)
  59. Tursunov Dmitry (RUS)
  60. Ungur Adrian (ROU)
  61. Verdasco Fernando (ESP)
  62. Wawrinka Stanislas (SUI)
  63. Young Donald (USA)
  64. Youzhny Mikhail (RUS)


Players in bold received a wildcard.

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Post by reckoner Thu 19 Jul 2012, 10:35 am

Many thanks to zaron and Woestijnrog, I've updated accordingly!

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Post by The Special Juan Thu 19 Jul 2012, 10:55 am

If the competition is limited to 4 players per country, how are they picked? Does it go in order of ranking or are the players picked according to how well they do?

Take Spain for example. The 4 players be Nadal, Ferrer, Almagro and Verdasco if picked on ranking but perhaps Nadal, Ferrer, Almagro and Lopez might stand a better chance.

I'm guessing from this post:

"The biggest casualty of the four player per country rule is Feliciano López."

That it's picked based on ranking but I don't agree with that.
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Post by reckoner Thu 19 Jul 2012, 12:39 pm

I guess they have to go with ranking, though you'd think the country would have some leeway in picking a "national side".

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Post by Woestijnrog Thu 19 Jul 2012, 4:09 pm

I think every nation is free to create their own criteria.
In Belgium for example -this is from memory so don't quote me on this- you had to have reached a fourth round in a slam or a quarter final in a masters 1000. Rochus was not selected and threatened with a law-suit. 4 years ago he had to win his court case to go to Beijing, this time the threat with legal action was enough to get selected.

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Post by barrystar Thu 19 Jul 2012, 6:11 pm

Nadal is out to be replaced by another - which means that Ferrer has a much more comfortable shot at a run to the SF than he did at Wimbledon.

It would be interesting to see him drawn agaisnt Tsonga in the QF - to see a show-down between the two best players outside the top 4 on grass this year.

No Rosol - sights of relieve all round I'm sure....
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