2024 Paris Olympics All Tennis Men's & Women's Entry Lists - Djokovic, Nadal, Swiatek, Gauff & More

2024 Paris Olympics All Tennis Men's & Women's Entry Lists - Djokovic, Nadal, Swiatek, Gauff & More

by Nurein Ahmed

The 2024 Paris Olympics will comprise five tennis competitions running from July 27th to August 4th, and the entry lists for the showpiece event have been revealed.

Tennis was reintroduced as an Olympic sport in 1988 after a long hiatus and has since become part of the Olympic Games with singles, doubles, and, as of 2012, mixed doubles tournaments. This year, a total of 41 countries will be represented.

The singles tournaments will each have a 64-player draw in the men's and women's, of which 56 qualified based on their official ATP and WTA ranking of June 10th, 2024. Players with ambitions to win a gold medal must win six rounds.

The runner-up will be awarded a silver medal, and the third-place finish, to be contested by the losing semifinalists, will win bronze. All matches will be held on the clay courts of Roland Garros.

One nation will be allocated a maximum of four spots in singles for their qualifying players. In the men's entry list, a total of six countries will boast a high of four players. These are Argentina, France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain and the USA.

The Spanish team has assembled two of the main favorites: Carlos Alcaraz and Rafael Nadal, who account for 15 Roland Garros titles. Serbia's hopes will be shouldered by Novak Djokovic, who is pursuing his first gold medal. The World No. 2 is joined by countryman Dusan Lajovic.

The Italian men's team will be led by World No. 1 and reigning Australian Open champion Jannik Sinner. The USA will also send a strong team, with two of its four men ranked inside the Top 20. They are Taylor Fritz and former Roland Garros junior champion Tommy Paul.

Andy Murray will play in his final tournament before retiring. He is slated to play in singles and doubles as part of a four-man British contingent that includes Jack Draper, Cameron Norrie, and Daniel Evans.

Russian players will compete as Individual Neutral Athletes comprised of Daniil Medvedev, Roman Safiullin, and Pavel Kotov. Greece (Stefanos Tsitsipas), Switzerland (Stan Wawrinka), Denmark (Holger Rune), and the Netherlands (Tallon Griekspoor) are some of the countries with one representative in singles.

2024 Olympics Tennis Men's Singles Entry List:

Country Players
Argentina Sebastian Baez, Francisco Cerundolo, Mariano Navone, Tomas Martin Etcheverry
Australia Alex de Minaur, Alexei Popyrin, Rinky Hijikata
Austria Sebastian Ofner
Belgium Zizou Bergs
Brazil Thiago Seyboth Wild, Thiago Monteiro (ITF)
Canada Felix Auger-Aliassime, Milos Raonic
China, P.R. Zhang Zhizhen (ITF)
Chile Nicolas Jarry, Alejandro Tabilo, Tomas Barrios Vera (ITF)
Czechia Tomas Machac, Jakub Mensik
Denmark Holger Rune
France Ugo Humbert, Gael Monfils, Arthur Fils, Corentin Moutet
Germany Alexander Zverev, Jan-Lennard Struff, Dominik Koepfer
Great Britain Cameron Norrie, Jack Draper, Daniel Evans, Andy Murray (ITF)
Greece Stefanos Tsitsipas
Hungary Fabian Marozsan, Marton Fucsovics
Individual Neutral Athletes (AIN) Daniil Medvedev, Roman Safiullin, Pavel Kotov
India Sumit Nagal
Italy Jannik Sinner, Lorenzo Musetti, Matteo Arnaldi, Luciano Darderi
Japan Kei Nishikori, Taro Daniel
Kazakhstan Alexander Bublik, Alexander Shevchenko
Korea, Rep. Kwon Soonwoo
Lebanon Benjamin Hassan (UP)
Netherlands Tallon Griekspoor
Norway Casper Ruud
Poland Hubert Hurkacz
Portugal Nuno Borges
Serbia Novak Djokovic, Dusan Lajovic
Spain Carlos Alcaraz, Rafael Nadal, Pablo Carreno Busta, Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
Switzerland Stan Wawrinka (ITF)
Tunisia Moez Echargui (ITF)
USA Taylor Fritz, Tommy Paul, Christopher Eubanks, Marcos Giron

The women's singles entry list will include players from 29 countries, excluding Russia. Some leading contenders will consist of China, Czechia, Germany, France, Ukraine, and the USA, each boasting a maximum of four players.

Poland's Iga Swiatek is the overwhelming favorite to win the gold medal. She has won four Roland Garros titles in the last five years and dropped just one set in her run to the title last month.

Kazakhstan's Elena Rybakina, the USA's Coco Gauff, Greece's Maria Sakkari, and Brazil's Beatriz Haddad Maia will compete for gold, silver, and bronze medals. These players have previously impressed on the Roland Garros clay.

A strong contingent from Czechia will also compete for the top prize. They include Tokyo silver medalist Marketa Vondrousova, 2021 French Open Barbora Krejcikova, and former French Open runner-up Karolina Muchova.

Katie Boulter will represent Great Britain, while Naomi Osaka of Japan will play in her second Olympics. She is the only woman to take a set from Swiatek at last month's French Open.

This year's French Open runner-up Jasmine Paolini leads a three-woman Italian squad, while Jelena Ostapenko, a former champion at the clay-court Grand Slam, is Latvia's only representative.

With Ons Jabeur withdrawing from the Olympic Games, Egypt's Mayar Sherif will represent the African continent. Defending gold medalist Belinda Bencic is on maternity leave, while 2016 Rio gold medalist Monica Puig is now retired. That means we are guaranteed a new gold winner.

2024 Olympics Tennis Women's Singles Entry List:

Country Players
Argentina Nadia Podoroska, Maria Lourdes Carle (ITF)
Australia Ajla Tomljanovic
Austria Julia Grabher
Brazil Beatriz Haddad Maia, Laura Pigossi (ITF)
Bulgaria Viktoriya Tomova
Canada Leylah Fernandez, Bianca Andreescu
China, P.R. Zheng Qinwen (ITF), Yuan Yue, Wang Xinyu, Wang Xiyu
Colombia Camila Osorio
Croatia Donna Vekic, Petra Martic
Czechia Marketa Vondrousova, Karolina Muchova, Barbora Krejcikova, Linda Noskova
Denmark Clara Tauson, Caroline Wozniacki (ITF)
Egypt Mayar Sherif (ITF)
France Caroline Garcia, Clara Burel, Diane Parry, Varvara Gracheva
Germany Angelique Kerber, Tatjana Maria, Tamara Korpatsch, Laura Siegemund
Great Britain Katie Boulter
Greece Maria Sakkari
Individual Neutral Athletes (AIN) Ekaterina Alexandrova, Mirra Andreeva, Diana Shnaider
Italy Jasmine Paolini, Elisabetta Cocciaretto, Lucia Bronzetti
Japan Naomi Osaka, Moyuka Uchijima
Kazakhstan Elena Rybakina, Yulia Putintseva
Latvia Jelena Ostapenko
Montenegro Danka Kovinic (UP)
Netherlands Arantxa Rus
Poland Iga Swiatek, Magda Linette, Magdalena Frech
Romania Ana Bogdan, Irina-Camelia Begu, Jaqueline Cristian
Slovakia Anna Karolina Schmiedlova
Spain Sara Sorribes Tormo, Cristina Bucsa
Switzerland Viktorija Golubic
Ukraine Marta Kostyuk, Elina Svitolina, Dayana Yastremska, Anhelina Kalinina
USA Coco Gauff, Jessica Pegula, Danielle Collins, Emma Navarro

The men's and women's doubles tournaments will each comprise a draw size of 32 teams. The path to the win a gold medal in doubles will have five rounds, including the final.

All tennis federations have finalized their list of doubles pairings. For the men's, the most catchy team on paper is Spain, where 14-time French Open champion Nadal will join forces with Alcaraz.

In fact, Spain is one of nine countries that have registered multiple doubles teams. Tokyo bronze medalist Pablo Carreno Busta will also return, aiming to win a second Olympic medal playing in singles and doubles (with Marcel Granollers).

2024 Olympics Tennis Men's Doubles Entry List:

Country Players
Argentina Maximo Gonzalez / Andres Molteni, Francisco Cerundolo / Tomas Martin Etcheverry
Australia Matthew Ebden / John Peers, Alex de Minaur / Alexei Popyrin
Belgium Joran Vliegen / Sander Gille
Brazil Thiago Seyboth Wild / Thiago Monteiro
Canada Felix Auger-Aliassime / Milos Raonic
Chile Nicolas Jarry / Alejandro Tabilo
Croatia Mate Pavic / Nikola Mektic
Czechia Adam Pavlasek / Tomas Machac
France Edouard Roger-Vasselin / Fabien Reboul, Ugo Humbert / Arthur Fils
Germany Kevin Krawietz / Tim Puetz, Jan-Lennard Struff / Dominik Koepfer
Great Britain Joe Salisbury / Neal Skupski, Daniel Evans / Andy Murray
Greece Stefanos Tsitsipas / Petros Tsitsipas
Hungary Fabian Marozsan / Marton Fucsovics
Individual Neutral Athletes (AIN) Daniil Medvedev / Roman Safiullin
India Rohan Bopanna / N. Sriram Balaji
Italy Andrea Vavassori / Simon Bolelli, Jannik Sinner / Lorenzo Musetti
Kazakhstan Alexander Bublik / Aleksandr Nedovyesov
Lebanon Benjamin Hassan / Hady Habib
Netherlands Tallon Griekspoor / Wesley Koolhof, Jean-Julien Rojer / Robin Haase
Poland Hubert Hurkacz / Jan Zielinski
Portugal Nuno Borges / Francisco Cabral
Spain Marcel Granollers / Pablo Carreno Busta, Carlos Alcaraz / Rafael Nadal
USA Rajeev Ram / Austin Krajicek, Taylor Fritz / Tommy Paul

The women's doubles entry list has some familiar pairings. Jessica Pegula and Coco Gauff might be playing their last tournament together.

There will be a reunion of one of the most successful doubles teams of the last few years as Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova look to repeat their heroics from Tokyo when they swept the gold medals.

2024 Olympics Tennis Women's Doubles Entry List:

Country Players
Argentina Nadia Podoroska / Maria Lourdes Carle
Australia Ellen Perez / Daria Saville, Ajla Tomljanovic / Olivia Gadecki
Brazil Luisa Stefani / Beatriz Haddad Maia
Canada Gabriela Dabrowski / Leylah Fernandez
China, P.R. Zhang Shuai / Yuan Yue, Wang Xinyu / Zheng Saisai
Chinese Taipei Hsieh Su-Wei / Tsao Chia Yi, Chan Hao-Ching / Latisha Chan
Czechia Marketa Vondrousova / Karolina Muchova, Katerina Siniakova / Barbora Krejcikova
France Caroline Garcia / Diane Parry, Clara Burel / Varvara Gracheva
Germany Laura Siegemund / Angelique Kerber, Tatjana Maria / Tamara Korpatsch
Greece Maria Sakkari / Despoina Papamichail
Great Britain Katie Boulter / Heather Watson
Individual Neutral Athletes (AIN) Mirra Andreeva / Diana Shnaider, Ekaterina Alexandrova / Elena Vesnina (AIN TBC)
Italy Jasmine Paolini / Sara Errani, Elisabetta Cocciaretto / Lucia Bronzetti
Japan Ena Shibahara / Shuko Aoyama
Netherlands Demi Schuurs / Arantxa Rus
New Zealand Erin Routliffe / Lulu Sun
Poland Magda Linette / Alicja Rosolska
Romania Irina-Camelia Begu / Monica Niculescu, Ana Bogdan / Jaqueline Cristian
Spain Sara Sorribes Tormo / Cristina Bucsa
Ukraine Marta Kostyuk / Dayana Yastremska, Lyudmyla Kichenok / Nadiia Kichenok
USA Coco Gauff / Jessica Pegula, Desirae Krawczyk / Danielle Collins

The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has noted that the 16-team mixed doubles entry lists will be finalized on Wednesday, July 24th.

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