The best BiH tennis player Damir Džumhur received an official invitation for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, stated the Olympic Committee of BiH.
The best 56 tennis players who meet requirements for competing in the Olympic Games will go to Rio. Damir Džumhur ensured his place in the Olympics after the latest ATP rankings.
Requirements for participation in the Olympics are quite simple. Four players from one country can perform in a single and players must be members of the Davis Cup for three times in the past four years.
Damir Džumhur is among the 56 players who qualified for the Olympics according to the latest ATP rankings, and the remaining eight places in the tournament will be taken by tennis players who will be invited.
Thirty six tennis players who are ranked higher that Džumhur (87th) on the ATP rankings will not go to Rio. Four of them quit the tournament, while 31 of them do not met requirements on the number of competitors from one country or do not have a sufficient number of performances in the Davis Cup. Aljaž Bedene does not have the right to perform because he changed the sports citizenship during the Olympic cycle.
Apart from Damir Džumhur, other representatives of BiH in the Olympic Games in Brazil will be Amel Tuka, Hamza Alić, Kemal Mešić, Mesud Pezer, Lucia Kimani, Tatjana Đekanović and Larisa Cerić.
(Source: klix.ba/photo: klix.ba)
