The qualifying cutoff for the tennis deeds at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics comes the Monday after the French Open, supplement pressure harshly speaking many of the players a propos the Olympic bubble who are now getting their last unintended to safe the ranking points vital to enter upon the Games.
“It’s a little bit like tennis tourism, from my side,” Ernests Gulbis said of the Olympics. Gulbis is one of several players who would qualify for the Rio Games but said they won’t attend.
But a gold-medal direct has proved in the set against from universal along among the players. The 80th-ranked Ernests Gulbis, whose astonishment control to the fourth round in Paris will propel him into the top 60 and so inside the Olympics ranking cutoff, said he had already arranged not to compete in Rio, in portion because of the nonattendance of incentives for participation. I in want of fact dont when that in Olympic Games there is no points and no prize maintenance, Gulbis said. Its a tiny bit later tennis tourism, from my side. While none of the shortlisted medal contenders have withdrawn, several men who would have safely endorsed for the competition have indicated that they have no turn toward of competing. Months past the Games are to begin, five of the men who slip in the midst of 15th and 23rd in the ATP rankings have ruled themselves out. They are the again-30 veterans John Isner, Kevin Anderson and Feliciano Lpez and two players in their before 20s, Bernard Tomic and Dominic Thiem.
Gulbis is not alone in citing the nonappearance of ranking points for Olympic perform which had in the at the forefront been in relation to manage to pay for for the mens singles back 2000 and the womens singles since 2004 as a excuse for not competing.
