There premature elimination of all the Italians in the WTA 1000 in Romearrived by second round, complicates the path of some Italians towards the Games. At Paris 2024 Olympics each country will be able to deploy four athletes in singles in tennis: they will be 56 athletes will qualify for the Games through the ranking that will be released on 10 June 2024, at the end of Roland Garros.
Curiously i Olympic tournaments they will be played on the fields that will host the matches of second Slam tournament of the season. THE Olympic tournaments of tennis are scheduled from Saturday 27 July to Sunday 4 Augustat the end of the two-week bracket of tournaments on European clay that follows Wimbledon: it will be played simultaneously with the Washington combined (ATP 500 and WTA 500 tournament)immediately before the 1000 Canadian (ATP in Montreal, WTA in Toronto) and Cincinnati.
It’s not easy to say what will the tennis players’ choices be?therefore, and certainly sacrifices will flockas also happened at the Tokyo Games, where fishing took place until number 146 ATP and 109 WTA, also by virtue of the fact that the Olympic tournament does not award points for ATP and WTA rankingsbut this simulation takes into account all those who at the moment would be virtually qualified if the race to Paris ended today.
L’Italy would bring three of the four possible singles players for a country in the women’s tournamentalthough at the moment two of them are beyond the cut-off limit and would be among the qualified exclusively due to the presence of more than four tennis players of the same nationality among those preceding them, even if in this case they are also considered Russian and Belarusianwaiting for official decision of the ITF.
Between women at the moment they would detach the pass Jasmine Paolini, 12th in the ranking, Elisabetta Cocciaretto61st, but number 45And Lucia Bronzetti, 66th but 49th of the qualifiers, while he would be out Martina Trevisan, 87th, 12 places from last of those admitted (this is the British Harriet Dart, 75th).
Internazionali d’Italia Roma 2024 today (11 May): order of play, match times, TV, streaming
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VIRTUAL ITALY QUALIFIERS ON MAY 11TH – SINGLES
Jasmine Paolini
Elisabetta Cocciaretto
Lucia Bronzetti
