So who’s not going to the Olympics? We bring you the complete list of players

This year’s Tokyo Olympics will be missing some star players in addition to fans. In this review, we summarize all the tennis players absent from the tournament, as well as the reasons for their absence. And there are certainly no unfamiliar names among the excused.

Perhaps the biggest disappointment was the withdrawal of Roger Federer, who was perhaps expected to make the Olympic tournament the last of his career. However, a knee injury will not allow the 39-year-old Swiss to play in the Games and we can only hope that the quarter-final at Wimbledon was not the last match of Federer’s life.

Before “Fedex”, another 20-time Grand Slam champion and clay king Rafael Nadal also withdrew due to fatigue. This means that of the “Big Three” only world number one Novak Djokovic will play at the Olympics, making him the clear number one favourite.

But there are many more excuses from the world’s top ten. For example, the US Open 2020 champion Dominic Thiem or the finalist of the recent Wimbledon, Matteo Berrettini, will not come. Canadian Denis Shapovalov is still missing from the top 10 due to a personal decision.

The list of players who will not be in Tokyo is really long, so we will just list them here. Roberto Bautista Agut, Casper Ruud, Alex de Minaur (positive for Covid – ed. note), Christian Garin and David Goffin. And that’s just the top 20 so far.

Grigor Dimitrov, Milos Raonic, Jannik Sinner, Dan Evans (positive for Covid – ed.), Stan Wawrinka and Cameron Norrie. That concludes the list of the top 32 in the world. Now let’s take a look at the selected players from the rest of the starting field.

For example, the young guns from the USA, Taylor Fritz and Sebastian Korda, will not be competing under the five rings. Another Czech-speaking tennis player from abroad, namely Canadian Vasek Pospisil, will also not be in the tournament. For example, Australian rebel Nick Kyrgios or Czech number one Jiri Vesely will be missing.

Among the women, Naomi Osaka, for whom the Olympics is her home tournament, returns to the tournament circuit. And the Japanese will not have as much competition as she apparently expected. So who didn’t come to Tokyo in the first place?

Three tennis players in the top ten. The highest-ranked holdout is Romania’s multiple Grand Slam champion Simona Halep. She will be joined by two young Big Four title holders, Canadian Andreescu and American Kenin.

In the other world top ten came the departures of Victoria Azarenka and Serena Williams. This very experienced pair was joined by world number 22 Angelique Kerber. A positive test then knocked American star Coco Gauff out of the running.

Another US player, Maddison Keys, got her chance to participate in the Olympics after Williams and Gauff withdrew. But she declined. Darya Kasatkina will be missing due to fear of Covid and Petra Martic will also not be on court for a personal reason.

Unfortunately, the Covid test also stopped Johanna Konta, and Sorana Cirste or Jil Teichmann will miss the match by their own decisions.

So the list of withdrawals is really long and full of great names. On the other hand, thanks to the withdrawals of a large number of players in the men’s bracket, Tomas Machac got into the game. He will complete the five-member women’s team of Pliskova, Krejcikova, Kvitova, Vondrousova, Siniakova (only for doubles – ed.)

Source:: tennismajors