The latest ATP list was published yesterday and it has a great importance. Apart from the fact that Đoković set a new record in the number of points (16.950), yesterday’s list is also showing who is going to the Olympic Games in Rio.
The best 56 tennis players on the rankings who meet conditions for competing in the Olympic Games are going to Rio de Janeiro.
Conditions are quite simple. Four players from one country can perform in a single, and players must be members of the Davis Cup three times in the past four years.
Among the 56 players who entered the Olympics with yesterday’s rankings is Damir Džumhur, and remaining eight places in the tournament will be taken by tennis players who will be invited.
Thirty six of the tennis players who are better positioned than Džumhur on the ATP rankings (Džumhur is 87th) will not go to the Olympics. Four of them quit the tournament while 31 of them do not meet condition for the number of competitors from one country or they lack performances in the Davis Cup. Aljaž Bedene does not have the right to compete because he changed sports citizenship during the Olympic cycle.
Tennis players who are better positioned than Džumhur but will not go to Rio are: Rafael Nadal (4th), Dominic Thiem (6th, quit), John Isner (17th, quit), Nick Kyrgios (17th, quit), Kevin Anderson (19th), Feliciano Lopez (22nd, quit), Bernard Tomić (23rd, quit), Benoit Paire (25th), Jack Sock (27th, quit), Ivo Karlović (28th, quit), Lucas Pouille (29th), Albert Ramos-Vinolas (32nd), Jeremy Chardy (33rd), Aleksandar Zverev (38th), Steve Johnson (39th), Pablo Carreno Busta (43rd), Marcel Granollers (45th), Nicolas Almagro (47th), Nicolas Mahut (49th), Giudo Pella (50th), Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (53rd ), Adrian Mannarino (55th), Denis Kudla (56th), Aljaž Bedene (58th, has no right to perform), Ernests Gulbis (59th), Paul-Henri Mathieu (60th), Taylor Fritz (65th), John Millman (66th), Rajeev Ram (72nd), Inigo Cervantes (75th), Mihail Južni (76th), Pierre-Hugues Herbert (79th), Tommy Robredo (81st), Rogerio Dutra Silva (83rd), Kyle Edmund (84th) and Dustin Brown (86th).
Here is the list of all players who ensured performance in the Olympic Games:
1 Novak Đoković
2 Andy Murray
3 Roger Federer
4 Stanislas Wawrinka
5 Kei Nishikori
6 Tomaš Berdych
7 Miloš Raonić
8 Richard Gasquet
9 David Goffin
10 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
11 Marin Čilić
12 David Ferrer
13 Gael Monfils
14 Roberto Bautista Agut
15 Giles Simon
16 Viktor Troicki
17 Pablo Cuevas
18 Phillipp Kohlschreiber
19 Aleksandr Dolgopolov
20 Joao Sousa
21 Fabio Fognini
22 Federico Delbonis
23 Grigor Dimitrov
24 Sam Querrey
25 Andreas Seppi
26 Marcos Baghdatis
27 Andrej Kuznjecov
28 Gilles Muller
29 Vašek Pospišil
30 Borna Ćorić
31 Martin Kližan
32 Fernando Verdasco
33 Ričardas Berankis
34 Paolo Lorenzi
35 Mihail Kukuškin
36 Thomaz Belucci
37 Malek Jaziri
38 Denis Istomin
39 Jiri Vesely
40 Dudi Sela
41 Diego Schwartzmann
42 Ivan Dodig
43 Lukaš Rosol
44 Ilija Marčenko
45 Donald Young
46 Jevgenij Donskoj
47 Victor Estrella Burgos
48 Dušan Lajović
49 Robin Haase
50 Leonardo Mayer
51 Damir Džumhur
52 Gastao Elias
53 Daniel Evans
54 Tejmuraz Gabašvili
55 Lu Yen-Shun
56 Karen Hačanov
(Source: klix.ba/photo: kameleon.ba)