Rio Olympics: who’s missing?

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Roger Federer, out for the rest of the season with injury, is the biggest of many stars not making the trip to Rio for the Olympic Tennis Event; Getty Images

The Olympic withdrawals just keep on a-comin’.

To keep track of who’s actually making the trip to Rio – less and less big names by the day, apparently – we’ve put together these handy tables to show you which top 50 stars will be absent from the singles draws at the Olympic Tennis Event.

With Stan Wawrinka’s withdrawal in the last 24 hours, five of the top 10 men will be MIA in Rio. Although the women’s draw is less decimated, five of the top 20 (including two top 10 stars) won’t take to the courts.

Remember: the rankings cut-off for direct acceptances into the main draws was on 6 June. In the two months since then rankings have fluctuated, which goes some way to explaining why a player like current world No.24 Elena Vesnina – who was ranked 53rd at that time – missed out on singles qualification.

MEN

Rank* Player Country Reason for withdrawal
3 Roger Federer SUI injury
4 Stan Wawrinka SUI injury
7 Milos Raonic CAN Zika concerns
8 Tomas Berdych CZE Zika concerns
10 Dominic Thiem AUT scheduling
15 Richard Gasquet FRA injury
17 John Isner USA scheduling
18 Nick Kyrgios AUS chose not to compete
19 Feliciano Lopez ESP scheduling
20 Bernard Tomic AUS scheduling
24 Alexander Zverev GER health issues
26 Ivo Karlovic CRO didn’t meet Davis Cup requirements
27 Lucas Pouille FRA didn’t meet Davis Cup requirements
28 Kevin Anderson RSA didn’t meet Davis Cup requirements
29 Sam Querrey USA scheduling
30 Martin Klizan SVK Zika concerns
38 Alexander Dolgopolov UKR Zika concerns
39 Jeremy Chardy FRA didn’t meet Davis Cup requirements
42 Nicolas Mahut FRA contesting doubles only; four compatriots qualified ahead of him in singles
45 Nicolas Almagro ESP didn’t meet Davis Cup requirements
46 Marcos Baghdatis CYP injury
47 Marcel Granollers ESP didn’t meet Davis Cup requirements
48 Fernando Verdasco ESP four compatriots qualified ahead of him in singles
50 Jiri Vesely CZE health issues

 

* ATP rankings as of 1 August 2016

WOMEN

Rank* Player Country Reason for withdrawal
3 Simona Halep ROU Zika concerns
7 Victoria Azarenka BLR pregnancy
11 Dominika Cibulkova SVK injury
16 Belinda Bencic SUI injury
17 Karolina Pliskova CZE Zika concerns
24 Elena Vesnina RUS contesting doubles only; four compatriots qualified ahead of her in singles
34 Coco Vandeweghe USA contesting doubles only; four compatriots qualified ahead of her in singles
42 Yulia Putintseva KAZ injury
45 Varvara Lepchenko USA didn’t meet Fed Cup requirements
47 Anna-Lena Friedsam GER didn’t meet Fed Cup requirements
50 Madison Brengle USA didn’t meet Fed Cup requirements
96** Maria Sharapova RUS serving a doping ban

 

* WTA rankings as of 1 August 2016
** Sharapova was ranked No.26 at the entry cut-off, and No.5 at the time of her last competitive outing (Australian Open 2016)

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