Tennis at the Olympics. Tennis. Women. Doubles
Upcoming tennis tournament XXXI year old The Olympic Games will be the fifteenth in the history of the Olympics and the eighth in modern history tennis - after tennis returned to the list in 1988 Olympic events sports
Five sets of medals will be played at the Olympic tournament: in singles and doubles for men and women, as well as in mixed doubles. The tournament will be held under the auspices of the International Olympic Committee, with the support of the ITF. Participants in the tennis tournament at the 2016 Olympics will not receive points in the ATP and WTA rankings.
All matches at the tournament will be played in a three-set format. The exception is the final of the men's singles tournament, which will be held in a five-set format. The decisive set in all categories except mixed doubles will be played without a tiebreaker. In case of equality in games in the mixed doubles, the winner will be determined using the “championship tie-break” system.
In men's singles, the first seed was Serbian Novak Djokovic. The world ranking leader will start with a match against Argentinean Juan Martin Del Potro, to whom he lost in the bronze medal match at the 2012 Olympics in London. Already in the second round, Novak can meet with the Portuguese Joao Sousa, whose starting opponent is the Dutchman Robin Haase. Djokovic's most likely opponent in the third round match is American Jack Sock, who has secured his status as a Top 30 player.
In the fight for reaching the semi-finals of the Games, the Serbian player can meet with the Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga or the Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut, who already has two titles in 2016, won in hard court competitions. Luxembourger Gilles Muller is quite capable of preventing the first one, while the Russian Andrey Kuznetsov will try to block the second one at the start.
Also at the top of the bracket is the Spaniard Rafael Nadal, who will begin the performance with a match with the Argentinean Federico Delbonis. Only the Frenchman Gilles Simon, whose results lately have not caused optimism, can impose a truly serious competition on Rafael in the fight for reaching the quarter-finals of the competition. The fact that he has not yet fully recovered from an injury to his left wrist plays against Rafael. It is obvious that if Nadal’s health allows him to perform at full strength, then the Spaniard will most likely fight for a medal of the highest standard.
In the third quarter, the Japanese Kei Nishikori, who last week reached the Masters final in Toronto, will begin his tournament journey. In the first round he will meet with Spaniard Albert Ramos, who had an excellent season on the dirt. Next, Kei will most likely face Lithuanian Richardas Berankis. The Japanese's problems may begin at the stage of the 1/8 finals, where he can play with the German Philipp Kohlschreiber.
The fight in the final quarter of the bracket promises to be interesting as well. Of course, the status of the main favorite here belongs to Andy Murray, who won gold at the London Olympics. This is not surprising, because the Briton won the Grand Slam tournament for the first time in three years - Wimbledon.
The lot was favorable to Andy in Rio de Janeiro. Murray can meet with any dangerous opponent only in the third round, and even then the most likely contender for this - the Frenchman Benoit Paire - is far from in optimal shape.
Only in the quarter finals can the Briton, whose qualification to this stage is beyond doubt, face any difficulties, although, frankly, neither the Spaniard David Ferrer nor the American Steve Johnson should become a serious obstacle for Murray.
The main character at the top will be the leader of the world ranking table, American Serena Williams. The current champion of the Games will begin her tournament journey with a fight with Australian Daria Gavrilova.
In the second round, Serena can meet Frenchwoman Alize Cornet, whose starting opponent will be Swede Johanna Larsson. In the match for reaching the quarterfinals, Williams Jr. will most likely fight with Ukrainian Elina Svitolina. In the quarter-final match, Serena’s opponent could be Italian Roberta Vinci or Czech Petra Kvitova.
In the second quarter of the top half of the tournament bracket, Spaniard Garbine Muguruza and American Venus Williams will start performing. However, Swiss Timea Bacsinszky and Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova are quite capable of preventing them from meeting in the quarterfinals.
Muguruza will start her performance with a fight against Serbian Jelena Jankovic. Already in the second round, the Spaniard can fight with the Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu, and in the 1/8 finals of the Olympics she can play with Pavlyuchenkova.
Venus Williams will compete against Belgian Kirsten Flipkens in the opening round. Already in the next match, the American can play with the Czech Lucie Safarova, and Venus’ opponent in the third round match may be Bacsinszky.
The third quarter of the tournament bracket turned out to be no less interesting. Here the fourth racket of the tournament, Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska, will begin her performance. In the first round, Agnieszka will meet with Chinese Zheng Saisai. The Polish woman's first truly dangerous opponent could be the Russian Daria Kasatkina, with whom Radwanska can fight in the second round.
Agnieszka will most likely fight with Czech Barbora Strycova to reach the quarterfinals of the competition. In the quarter-final match, the Polish woman can play with American Madison Keys, who a week ago became vice-champion of the competition in Montreal.
In the second quarter of the lower half of the tournament bracket, the German Angelique Kerber, who received the second number when seeded, will begin the competition. The winner of the Australian Open will meet Colombian Mariana Duque-Marina at the start of the tournament. Despite the fact that Angelique was unable to reach the final of the tournament in Montreal, she looks like the favorite in her part of the bracket.
In the second round of the tournament, the German will play the winner of the meeting between Canadian Eugenie Bouchard and American Sloane Stephens, and then, apparently, will face Australian Samantha Stosur, who received the 13th seed.
At the top of this quarter, the focus will be on Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova. In the first round, Svetlana will face off against Chinese Jiang Wang. Then either Romanian Monica Niculescu or Veronica Cepede-Roig from Paraguay will stand in Kuznetsova’s way. In the third round, the Russian woman can meet with Briton Johanna Konta.
Tennis is a game played with a ball and rackets on a special court (a court 23.77 m long and 8.23 m wide), divided by a net fixed at a height of 1.07 m. The mesh is stretched over square and round posts with a side and diameter of no more than 15 cm.
Known since the days of the Old French game, scoring is based on dividing the day into 24 hours (up to 24 games were played). In turn, the hours were divided into four quarters; each successful ball was equivalent to one quarter of an hour - 15 minutes corresponded to 15 points. Thus, one game lasted until 60 points, and the count was kept in the following way: 15, 30, 45, 60. Over time, the number of games has been reduced to 6 in one set, and every third successful ball now counts for 10 points, i.e. instead of 45, 40 is announced.
OLYMPIC GAMES
Tennis competitions first appeared at the 1896 Games in Athens and continued until the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, after which they were cancelled. Then tennis was included in the Games program twice as a demonstration sport, until it again entered the competitive program of the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul. Initially, the competition was for men; women's disciplines appeared at the 1900 Games in Paris.
RUSSIA
On August 18, 1878, the “Manifesto on the global development of lawn tennis in Russia” was published, proclaimed by an initiative group led by the writer and historian Dmitry Solovyov. By the beginning of the 20th century, there were 12 large tennis clubs in Russia.
The most titled tennis player in Russia is still Yevgeny Kafelnikov - winner of two tournaments " Grand Slam(“Roland Garros” 1996 and Australian open 1999) and Olympic champion Sydney 2000 singles. Marat Safin also won the Grand Slam tournaments twice (Australian Open 2005 and US Open 2000).
The most titled tennis player in Russia is Maria Sharapova. She won the Grand Slam tournaments five times (Wimbledon 2004, US Open 2006, Australian Open 2008 and Roland Garros twice - in 2012 and 2014).
In 2008, Elena Dementieva became the champion of the Beijing Games. In Dementieva’s collection, this medal is the second at the Olympic Games: in 2000 in Sydney, the Russian woman won a silver award. Tennis tournament in Beijing became a real triumph for Russian women's tennis: the entire podium was occupied by representatives of the domestic tennis school. Dinara Safina won the silver medal, Vera Zvonareva won the bronze medal.
Successful performance at the Olympics continued in London in 2012. Maria Sharapova won the silver medal in singles, while Nadezhda Petrova and Maria Kirilenko won bronze medals.
At the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the Russian team again had Golden medal in tennis. For the first time in history Russian tennis Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina won in doubles.
Photo - Sergey Kivrin and Andrey Golovanov
Tennis is a game played with a ball and rackets on a special court (a court 23.77 m long and 8.23 m wide), divided by a net fixed at a height of 1.07 m. The net is stretched over square and round posts with a side and a diameter of no more than 15 cm. The goal of the game is to hit the ball with a racket to the opponent’s half so that he cannot hit it or hits it in violation of the rules. 2 players (or 2 teams of 2 people) are on opposite sides of the net. One of them is the server and puts the ball into play and serves. The second player is the receiver of the serve. The players' task is to direct the ball with racket strikes towards the opponent's side, while hitting the ball within the boundaries of the court. The player must have time to hit the ball before it touches the court more than once. The player who made a mistake loses the rally, and his opponent scores a point. Players need to score points to win games. By collecting games, one of the players wins the set. To win the match, you need to win 2 out of 3, or 3 out of 5 sets. As soon as one of the players reaches the required number of sets won, the match ends.
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Now a little about the main thing sporting event 2016. The Summer Olympics are traditionally held once every four years, this is the 31st Olympic tournament since 1896. Full official name of the championship " Summer Olympics in Brazil(Summer Olympic Games Brazil 2016)". The organizer of this global world tournament is the International Olympic Committee (IOC). In 2016, the world sports championship will be held in Rio de Janeiro, the capital of Brazil. The Russian team is among the favorites of the Brazilian games. The Russian team is considered one of the strongest at the upcoming Olympics, along with the teams of the USA, China, Germany, and Italy. Russians traditionally perform successfully in certain sports disciplines. Therefore, Russia can safely count on medals in fencing, swimming, shooting, tennis - these are sports where the Russian team predicts to win medals at Rio 2016. The Russians are the undisputed favorites of the 2016 Olympics synchronized swimming And rhythmic gymnastics. Sports experts predict that Russia will win medals at the 2016 Games in martial arts: freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling, judo, boxing. Representatives of team sports: basketball, volleyball, handball and water polo do not plan to leave South America without awards and medals. Many medals could be expected from track and field athletes, especially in race walking, running, high jumping both with and without a pole, weightlifting..., but doping scandals and politics did their job, Russians were banned from competing in these medal-intensive events.
For us, the fans, all that remains is to follow the results of tennis competitions, experience and actively support our favorite athletes, and rejoice at their victories, of which we hope there will be many. Go Russia! We are cheering for ours!
On public channels in Russia they show group matches in volleyball, handball, 1/32 finals table tennis, where no matter how well you play, there will be a Chinese who will beat you with a ladle. At the same time, it is as if tennis does not exist, although in this form domestic athletes have much better chances than in table battles.
On Monday, almost the same situation arose on the courts of Rio as at the recent Rogers Cup in Canada. The best representatives of Russian tennis appeared on the court on the same day to reach the next round. In Montreal, everything ended in tears - Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Svetlana Kuznetsova and Daria Kasatkina could not overcome the quarterfinal barrier. But then the rivals were much more formidable... This time Ekaterina Makarova joined the trio, and the stage is still modest - only the 1/16 finals.
The first to leave the race was Pavlyuchenkova, who traditionally criticized the organization of the Olympics. She said that there were no conditions, dirt, construction, in a word - horror, at other junior tournaments everything is much better. However, don’t complain, don’t complain, but the conditions are the same for everyone, and for Puerto Rican Monica Puig they were exactly the same as for Pavlyuchenkova. She played stronger than her opponent, gave up only five games and reached the 1/8 finals.
The angry St. Petersburg tennis player Svetlana Kuznetsova, who had already scolded Rio more than once for the terrible organization of the competition, easily overcame the barrier of the second round without even stepping onto the court. Romanian Monica Niculescu simply refused to go onto the court.
By the way, maybe this is why the tournament is not shown on major TV channels, since the dirt on the courts is visible to the naked eye? Ashamed? Daria Kasatkina definitely shouldn’t be ashamed - she easily dealt with the Chinese Zheng Saisai. 19-year-old Kasatkina is in good shape, despite a difficult first match, after which Dasha also complained about construction dirt scattered across the court, like the rivals of the young Rafael Nadal.
Who I had to worry about was Ekaterina Makarova. Her meeting with Slovakian Anna Schmidlova lasted almost two and a half hours. Katya, unlike Kuznetsova and Kasatkina, has a very difficult draw, her next opponent will be Petra Kvitova, and then (if this “next” happens) looms the American Serena Williams. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev would wish Makarova to hold on.
|By the way
Getting stuck in an elevator is a good sign!
Everything happens for the first time. The Williams sisters lost for the first time in their careers in the Olympic doubles tournament. The offenders turned out to be Czechs Lucie Safarova and Barbora Strycova. “I don’t know what happened, but nothing worked for us,” Serena threw up her hands. - The match was very difficult. The draw was unfortunate for us, but we are already used to it.”
Serbian Novak Djokovic could also complain about the draw. Four years ago he met with the Argentinean del Potro in the bronze medal match, and now they met at the start. The outcome also turned out to be the same - the first racket of the world sensationally crashed out in the first round! The Serb was not helped even by the fact that on the way to the game del Potro was stuck in an elevator for forty minutes. “Of course, I am very sad that I am leaving the tournament so early. This is one of the hardest defeats in my life,” admitted a shocked Djokovic. He will have his next chance to fulfill his Olympic dream only in four years.
|Results
Men. Singles
1/32 finals. Radu Albot (Moldova) - Teimuraz Gabashvili (Russia) 4:6, 6:4, 6:4; del Potro (Argentina) - Djokovic (Serbia, 1) 7:6(4), 7:6(2)
Women. Singles
1/16 finals. Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia, 8) - Monica Niculescu (Romania) - refusal; Monica Puig (Puerto Rico) - Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Russia, 14) 6:3, 6:2; Ekaterina Makarova (Russia) - Anna Shmidlova (Slovakia) 3:6, 6:4, 6:2; Daria Kasatkina (Russia) - Zheng Saisai (China) 6:1, 6:4
Women. Doubles
1/16 finals. Lucie Safarova/Barbora Strycova (Czech Republic) - Serena Williams/Venus Williams (USA) 6:3, 6:4
