Talk:Tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Comparison to the 2012 page pre-cutoff
I went back and looked at an older version [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tennis_at_the_2012_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Qualification&oldid=496399030] of Tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Qualification, and noticed that the format was significantly different before the qualification cutoff date. It looks like this page has rather been modeled after the current state of that page, which I think is far superior.

I'm voicing my support for keeping the page in its current format, as it seems unnecessary to include all the "race for 56th" information that was included in 2012. If anything, an extra column could be added to include total ranking points. Anything more than that seems like unnecessary noise. In my opinion, it would be best to have all the players in one table, so that all one needs to do to see the "Race for 56th" is scroll to 56th place.

Feedback would be welcome. —Hermionedidallthework (talk) 15:33, 11 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Actually, I made a comprehensive table for the Women's singles which incorporates all the factors that determine Olympic quaflification. This table will work for the other tournaments if anyone wants to copy it. —Hermionedidallthework (talk) 02:37, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

Aljiaz Bedene
The article states that Bedene isn't eligible to compete at the Olympics because he hasn't played Davis Cup for his country which is now the UK. However, the ITF won't allow him to play Davis Cup because he previously played for Slovenia even though he wishes to do so. This raises a question mark over whether he will be able to play at the Olympics or not given that this situation is down to the ITF rather than the player himself. (213.104.176.154 (talk) 06:33, 18 September 2015 (UTC))
 * This early in the game (three majors before the Olympics!), all the tables in this article are really keeping track of is who has/hasn't met their Davis/Fed Cup requirement. If and when the ITF starts making any special considerations for injury or other circumstances, we can start notating it in the table. —Hermionedidallthework (talk) 13:14, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
 * No Bedene in the Olympics in the end. Tvx1 16:42, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Missed players in women's
Why are some women missed in ranking? Muguruza, Kuznetsova 2A02:6B0:16:1:4DF5:2483:39DF:6F9F (talk) 07:25, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Hmm, you're right. Looks like 1306-rob accidentally cut them out when they were updating the table. I'll try my best to get it updated and corrected today. Side note: I feel like with some of these tennis tables, we have to WP:IGNORE the no original research rule. —Hermionedidallthework (talk) 13:43, 30 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Turns out they replaced all my en dashes with regular hyphens, which made those rows disappear. I've fixed and updated it now. Unless someone else beats me to it, I'll make a point to update again after Singapore and Zhuhai, and the Fed Cup final of course. —Hermionedidallthework (talk) 18:05, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Color issue
Colors should not be so dark as to make it hard to read players names. Also color can't be the only means of conveying information per WP:ACCESSIBILITY. Letter coding has been added to help with the sight challenged. The actual color darkness is a content issue, but the extra coding to help our sight-challenged readers is per wikipedia consensus. Fyunck(click) (talk) 19:58, 6 January 2016 (UTC)


 * About the colors in the "Qualified players" section, should discuss about them. 333-blue 08:27, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
 * What would you like to discuss about them? As they are now is easy on the eye, easy to read the names of players, they have letters alongside to help the colorblind. Fyunck(click) (talk)
 * Fyunck: It looks pretty nice now. Thanks. —Hermionedidallthework (talk) 18:20, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I had actually only stopped by to edit it since it wasn't compliant with WP:ACCESSIBILITY and I noticed how harsh the color scheme was. Here's hoping for a great tennis season. Fyunck(click) (talk) 19:25, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Priority of qualification criteria
I was going to do the update for the women's singles today, and I noticed that Damiankramek beat me to it. Previously, the table had prioritized Fed Cup requirements over the number of players from a country (this made sense to me, because regardless of how many players from your country are ranked, they can't play without meeting Davis/Fed Cup requirements). Now, the fifth, sixth, etc. players from each country are marked grey regardless of their Fed Cup credentials.

Take Madison Brengle as an example; she's marked as ineligible due to too many players from her country. However, only one of the Americans ahead of her in the rankings have met their Fed Cup requirements (Serena). To me, this means that Brengle is ineligible due to Fed Cup, not number of players from her country. If she meets her Fed Cup requirements before Sloane, Venus, or Keys, she's in. And then Mattek-Sands is marked as ineligible due to Fed Cup requirements, even though she's ranked lower than Brengle. I can't figure out the reason for that one. I know this isn't a high priority, but I thought it was worth bringing up. —Hermionedidallthework (talk) 20:01, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
 * You're right. The criteria that should take priority is the criterium that actually applies. So in the case of Brengle it should be ineligible due to her failing the Fed Cup requirements. Nevertheless, I think that it should be labelled as such when a player fails more than one criteria. Therefore I suggest ditching the numbers and only use symbols (†, ‡, §, ‖, since we have four categories). This way we could label a player that fails multiple categories by applying multiple symbols. If some color should really have to remain, the best would be to reduce to just one (because were really only distinguishing between eligible and eligible) and use the symbols (or the letters) to further elaborate the reasons. Tvx1 22:32, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I agree that only the one color should be used... the actual color that caused the failing. And we could certainly use multiple letters/symbols to further refine all the reasons why a player fails. †, ‡, §, are fine because they all look different. the "‖" looks too much like the number 1 or an L if you are trying to avoid the letters I chose (a,b,c,d). I don't see anything wrong with the letters I chose, nor do I see anything wrong with using symbols. My only suggestion would be to make the symbols different enough to tell them apart when crammed next to each other. So if a,b,c,d are not to everyone's liking then maybe †,§,∆,∂. Fyunck(click) (talk) 23:34, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Well, I have now realized that symbols are already being used for footnotes to the tables. So, letters seem to be a good way forward. Tvx1 23:40, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I guess we could always change the footnote symbols. Like I said, I'm totally flexible on the issue of symbols/letters/inkspots. So long as color isn't the only criteria, and the colors aren't harsh, I'm good...I really don't edit these particular articles much. Cheers. Fyunck(click) (talk) 00:00, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Rankings
The doubles tables are not really clear on which ranking they use: singles or doubles. Now it's still reasonable, because they only list ten players at this point. But as we can see in the 2012 equivalent of this article, it doesn't remain like that and there the columns give no clue whatsoever which ranking is used and they don't do here either. I feel we could and should improve that. Tvx1 22:06, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
 * How is this? We could add a footnote about how the combined rankings are totaled.
 * {| class="wikitable"

!width=20|No. !CR !width=200|Player A !width=20|SR !width=20|DR !width=200|Player B !width=20|SR !width=20|DR !width=140|NOC !colspan="9" | World Ranking !colspan="9" | Other Entrants
 * -align=center bgcolor=#E3F9F9
 * b
 * align=left|Martina Hingis
 * 1
 * align=left|
 * align=left|
 * -align=center
 * 1
 * align=left|Sania Mirza
 * 1
 * align=left|Prarthana Thombare
 * align=left|
 * align=left|Sania Mirza
 * 1
 * align=left|Prarthana Thombare
 * align=left|
 * align=left|Prarthana Thombare
 * align=left|
 * align=left|
 * align=left|
 * -align=center
 * 2
 * 31
 * align=left|Angelique Kerber
 * 6
 * 208
 * align=left|Andrea Petkovic
 * 25
 * 99
 * align=left|
 * -align=center
 * 3
 * 34
 * align=left|Sara Errani
 * 19
 * 48
 * align=left|Roberta Vinci
 * 15
 * 63
 * align=left|
 * }
 * Most of the players above are just hypothetical examples, of course. —Hermionedidallthework (talk) 15:42, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
 * That's exactly what I had in mind. Tvx1 17:33, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I've implemented new tables into all three of the doubles sections. If anyone has any ideas to make them better but doesn't know how to do it, feel free to message me. —Hermionedidallthework (talk) 22:11, 26 January 2016 (UTC)


 * One thing. Many people will not have a clue what CR, SR, or DR mean. If it's not fully spelled out there needs to be a key right up top describing what it stands for. Also, you might want to better explain what a combined ranking is because many Olympic readers won't have any knowledge how rankings are done in tennis. Fyunck(click) (talk) 22:14, 26 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Fyunck: I planned on adding footnotes about combined rankings, but I forgot. I'll add them shortly. The CR, SR, and DR all have hover-texts using abbr, although I notice it doesn't show up on my mobile device. —Hermionedidallthework (talk) 22:24, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Yeah, the mouse-overs work fine for computer screens but they usually won't work in mobile devices. A footnote would probably work for everything. Fyunck(click) (talk) 22:32, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Davis Cup/Fed Cup requirements
According to this article, players must be nominated thrice during the the 2013-2016 period. However, if you check the documentation, you will read that they actually start to count from the end of the previous olympics. This means that the 2012 Davis Cup semifinals, final and all the play-offs, as well as the 2012 Fed Cup final, count too. This means we might have to double-check the figures. Another question I have is wether the 15-17 July 2016 Davis Cup quarterfinal nominations still count for these olympics. Tvx1 21:20, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

Update:I've checked and corrected the figures. David Ferrer appeared to have been most affected by the oversight. The question on this july's Davis Cup ties remains though. Tvx1 21:57, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

As stated by the ITF, Newcomers might be exempt from the threefold representation requirement. This might apply to German Alexander Zverev. The strength of nation clause might apply to German Laura Siegemund, who had her first Top 40 ranking now at age 28. She was never considered for the German Fed Cup team while being the nations number eight or nine, but she will be nominated for Germany in the Olympics. This might affect a great number of other athletes.User:Fancytree --Fancytree (talk) 11:29, 20 June 2016 (UTC) —Preceding undated comment added 11:27, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

Recent changes/Protected Rankings/ITF Places/ITF Exemptions
A user had recently made massive changes to the men's singles table. None of them were supported with any sources, so I had no option to revert to the last good version. Claims that players have requested an exemption, received an ITF place or have a Protected Ranking and requested and received an entry based on it (no player is forced to use a protected ranking for any given tournament) need to be backed up with reliable sources. Tvx1 13:29, 10 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Here below is mentioned above, what I believe as the more accurate entry list to Rio.

The following players commited themselves to ATP Los Cabos held during the Olympics: Thiem, Lopez, Tomic, Karlovic, Chardy, Querrey, Verdasco. None of them can be marked as "IN" Rio. Click

After doing some browsing it's possible to find numerous media reports about American and Australian situation, in such case when their two top players are suddenly pulling out these two NOCs will have to nominate other players asking for exemptions (and be smart - they are too big nations to not be allowed for exemptions, it's even clearly written here. The likes of Sock, Millman, Zverev fit perfectly to that exemptions rules.

Nadal already has been confirmed as a flag bearer for Spain, marking him as "out" is not understandable.

Few players like Del Potro and Kokkinakis already pointed their intention of using protected rankings.

Here on wikipedia we have currently version which ignores everything apart from DC appearances and NOC ranking. The effect of such acting is Stakhovsky as the last accepted. Thing is he will not be IN... I understand wikipedia requires sources, but this what we have now is not a true information, is not something can be treated as a "fact"

Exemptions and option to use protected ranking is equally important as number of DC selections and/or ranking within each country.

Here is the alternative proposal for wikipedia article:

Men's singles
''Note: This is the provisional entry list based on ITF qualifying criteria and available players' statements. ITF will anounce the initial list on 30 June'' † Aljaž Bedene has previously represented Slovenia, making him ineligible for Great Britain. His nominations for Slovenian Davis Cup team are not counted here.

H Host Country Representation R Regional Representation C Gold Medalist/Grand Slam Champion U Universality A Alternates
 * Final Qualification Places

TheLightBlue (talk) 14:12, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
 * The following players commited themselves to ATP Los Cabos held during the Olympics: Thiem, Lopez, Tomic, Karlovic, Chardy, Querrey, Verdasco. None of them can be marked as "IN" Rio.
 * Thiem, Lopez and Tomic are already counted out as having elected not to compete. Karlovic and Chardy are counted out because of failing the Davis Cup requirements. With the source you provided we can now count Querrey and Verdasco out as well.


 * Few players like Del Potro and Kokkinakis already pointed their intention of using protected rankings.


 * Sock, Millman, Zverev fit perfectly to that exemptions rules.


 * We need a source stating them having received an exemption before we can change their status.


 * Nadal already has been confirmed as a flag bearer for Spain, marking him as "out" is not understandable.


 * We don't mark him out of the olympics, we mark out of a direct (=world ranking) qualification spot. This is consistent with the information we currently have. He will most likely receive an ITF place because of being a past champion.


 * To sum up, wikipedia does not go by what someone considers a fact. We go by what we can verify. You need to learn to support your changes/proposals with reliable sources. Tvx1 15:13, 10 June 2016 (UTC)


 * We will not have confirmation about exemption/protected ranking until 30 June, that's the problem! I cannot provide you with a source confirming let's say PR for Mayer or exemption for Pella, but neither you cannot provide me a similair source that Mayer will NOT enter with PR nor Pella will NOT receive exemption. So? The effect of ignoring possible exemptions and procted rankings is that according to Wikipedia Stakhovsky is gonna be direct acceptance. This is the only place in Internet where such info states, source please? No source, because it will not happen...
 * Regarding Nadal, ITF Places awardees also need to have fulfilled criteria, so once he will be exempted from number of DC selections he can be entered directly as 4th in the ranking. No need to give him ITF Place for "Gold Medalist/Grand Slam Champion" as anyway for it ITF clearance is necessary.
 * It is difficult position where we are, but the only things we have confirmed are Tripartite Commission Invitations for Džumhur and King, few players who openly rejected potential Rio spot, and some statements by players or NOC, like Millman stating that he will definitely appeal, or American media saying about Sock being their top player, or Aussie media pointing Millman, Kokkinakis and Thompson as the replacements for Kyrgios and Tomic, plus Nadal announcement of being flag bearer, etc... So, what to do? Keep incorrect list just to keep, maybe better leave it blank and wait for confirmation? Inlcude in table only names confirmed with a source?TheLightBlue (talk) 15:36, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Than we'll have to wait until 30 June to include that information. Wikipedia is not a news site with hot of the needle information. More often than not an article is a day or so behind pending verification of new developments. Regardless, according to this the NOC's have been informed two days ago which players they can enter and have until 16 June to confirm their entries and apply for the ITF places. This means that information will undoubtedly become available over the next few days and also that the ITF places you have been filling simply cannot be right as these places haven't even been applied for. You're just guessing at it. Tvx1 13:40, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I am trying to explain you that pointing that currently Krajinovic (haha) is IN is as well guessing from you. Because the only way for Krajinovic to be in Rio is rejecting Nadal, other players, etc. How do you know that none of the player will use protected ranking, and that nobody will be exempted from fulfilling Davis Cup criteria, may you explain that? This assumtion is your base in creating this entry list. Otherwise, name it differently, not "qualified players", but instead "players eligible for qualification, pending no appeal is granted". KRAJINOVIĆ IS NOT A QUALIFIED PLAYER FOR RIO!!! Also, King has its spot TheLightBlue (talk) 15:11, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm not assuming that no-one will use their protected ranking nor that none will receive an exemption. We just can't enter such info unless we have a source to back it up with. And concerning Darian King. Wild Card? Where do you want me to put that? Is that an ITF place or a tripartite invitation?? Nothing in the ITF's regulations for the Rio tennis event mentions wildcards. I can't find anything about him being entered on the Barbados NOC's official site either. Tvx1 21:39, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Can't you see its just journalists way of calling it "wild card"? It is obviously Tripartite Commission Invitation, ITF Places have strict regulations where can go, so it cant be this. By the way - look this: Accidently the same 4 players from Argentina I put... Krajinovic still IN? :-) TheLightBlue (talk) 08:43, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
 * So, you see Damir did get a direct entry and so did Stakhovsky, but he refused it however. Tvx1 16:10, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

GB Team
Britain have today named their team - Murray, Murray, Konta & Watson, so no Dan Evans, which opens up another spot for someone fchd (talk) 17:38, 10 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Because Evans was never on the entry list... It's just according to wikipedia, which I am trying to tell you TheLightBlue (talk) 17:48, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Or he or his NOC decided not to enter him. This is currently only just a list of players who are eligible to be entered. No one is forced to enter. By the way, I have looked up Team GB's announcement of the tennis line-up, and it it literally states this is the initial four-strong squad. That's a clear statement that this aren't all their entries yet. Tvx1 13:41, 11 June 2016 (UTC)


 * And sure enough, Kyle Edmund, Colin Fleming and Dominic Inglot were added to the roster. Tvx1 14:14, 5 July 2016 (UTC)


 * And indeed, Evans rejected an entry himself. Tvx1 16:01, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

Modification of entry in doubles mens & womens
Can you explain to me who the f?&*&? decide to delete all the work done regarding the pairing in doubles for the Olympics... with the mention unsourced??? It's totally bullshit, almost all those pairing was already announce by their respective NOC. So good work to you !!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by SYMON8 (talk • contribs) 14:48, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

The ITF has released an entry list
Don't have time to put it in myself, but here it is: http://www.itftennis.com/media/232325/232325.pdf — Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.106.112.10 (talk) 18:00, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Schiavone gives up her Olympic Wildcard
Schiavone should be take off the wildcard in the women singles entries after she declined the invitation. Based on that, the second entry in double for Italy (Knapp & Schiavone) should be delete as well.

Based on this news:
 * ✅. Tvx1 16:39, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Gasparyan injured
Gasparyan won't participate in the Games due to injury, Myskina: "... Rita has an injury which must be treaten. After the surgery she made just following Wimbledon, it was clear, that she won't participate at the Games. Everyone really hoped that this won't happen, but after consultations with several physicians, Rita had to make a surgery. So, Kuznetsova will play with Daria Kasatkina in doubles" --User:Tomcat7 (talk) 18:49, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Great, but you need to learn to back your changes with a source in the article per WP:VERIFY. When you made the change, you did not supply any source. I have now . In future, make sure to add an inline citation straight away yourself.Tvx1 10:51, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

Position of protected rankings
In the singles tables players who have use a protected ranking (PR) to enter are listed according to their (assumed) protected ranking and not their actual ranking on June 6. I feel it would be better to do it the other way round because the current situation creates unnecessary complications. For instance, Juan Monaco is now listed twice. These players will simply be entered because they have a protected ranking. The number of their PR is not that important. It will not be used to determine their position in the draw. For instance, Juan Martin del Potro, who is assumed to have a PR of 7, will not be entered as a seventh seed. Therefor listing them at the bottom is much easier. On a side-note Dan Evans has been listed as having decided no to go to RIo. This is not right, however. In fact I expect him to receive on of the ITF places which have opened up. Tvx1 16:09, 29 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Evans indeed rejected Rio spot (http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/evans-says-no-to-rio-after-berdych-worries-over-zika-xnp6cwlkm), I believe it is better to keep PR players placement as it is, okay we will need Monaco being listed twice if Janowicz will get IN directly to have table complete, but that's why I introduced another category in legend to mark his situation.
 * Why I believe it is better to keep it like it is? Simply now we can see who is the last direct acceptance, what ranking was needed to get entry to Rio, which is the core of Olympic qualification (how fast you had to run 100m, what teams you had to defeat in teams competition, how far you had to throw a hammer, etc., and finally how good ranking you had to have in tennis), showing Baker with some 500+ ranking is making the picture not so clear, his original ranking completely doesnt matter since it would never ever give him Rio spot, but 56 is enough indeed. And placing those protected players at the bottom of the list is breaking the rule of having the table completed, if we have directed entry for player ranked in 6th hundred, then what about those between him and Janowicz/Thompson, ie. last direct acceptance? TheLightBlue (talk) 11:10, 30 July 2016 (UTC)
 * There's no reason to list Monaco twice and it's just confusing. He got in without the protected ranking, so we don't need to list him as having one. Smartyllama (talk) 15:51, 30 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I agree that it's just confusing. However, I do believe he needed to use a PR to enter because otherwise his countryman Schwartzman (and indeed Mayer) would have received the entry instead.Tvx1 17:04, 30 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Monaco needs PR, because like Tvx1 said, otherwise he wouldnt be top4 in his country. You can remove Monaco from his 94 position, but leaving protected ranking at the bottom of the list will be even more confusing, for the reasons I stated above. TheLightBlue (talk) 17:11, 30 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Ok, fair enough. Either way, he shouldn't be on there twice, so I'm removing the second one. If he wouldn't be on there without the protected ranking, he should be under the PR only, just like the others. Smartyllama (talk) 18:29, 30 July 2016 (UTC)

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