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Olympic Men's Entries Announced


The Big Four will be serving double duty in Rio.

The International Tennis Federation announced singles and doubles entries for the Olympic Games in Rio. World No. 1 Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal are all entered in singles and doubles.

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The tournament will be staged at the Olympic Tennis Centre in Barra Olympic Park August 6-14th.

Fifty-one countries will compete in this year’s event.

Andy Murray and Serena Williams will defend their London 2012 Olympic singles titles, while Bob and Mike Bryan and Venus and Serena Williams will defend their doubles titles.

Federer and Stan Wawrinka, the 2008 Olympic gold-medal winning doubles team, Andy Murray and brother Jamie Murray, who led Great Britain to the Davis Cup championship last November, Djokovic and Nenad Zimonjic and  Nadal and Marco Lopez are all entered as doubles teams.


Sixty-four players will contest both the men’s and women’s singles. Thirty-two teams will contest both the men’s and women’s doubles, with entries a combination of direct acceptances and final qualification places.

Federer and Martina Hingis will play mixed doubles. Nadal, if healthy, could partner Roland Garros champion Garbine Muguruza in mixed doubles.

Photo credit: ITF

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