Coco Gauff continues to lead WTA Olympic Games race despite Aryna Sabalenka closing in

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Wednesday, 31 January 2024 at 00:30
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Coco Gauff maintains her lead in the WTA Olympic Games race, followed by the recent Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka and the world No. 1 Iga Swiatek. The Olympic Games 2024 Paris will take place on the clay courts of Roland Garros.
Although Gauff remains at world No. 3, she is the player who has accumulated the most points since June of last year, thanks to her three titles during the US hardcourt swing, including her first Grand Slam victory at the US Open. Belinda Bencic, the reigning gold medallist, will be absent from Paris due to her pregnancy, keeping her out for the rest of the season.

Qualification for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games

The qualification system includes 64 tennis players, with 56 of them entering based on the WTA rankings as of June 10, which is 52 weeks from the end of the 2023 French Open. Under this system, the maximum quota of four players representing their country must be respected, and the list then fills the freed-up slots beyond the top 56.
The remaining eight spots consist of six ITF slots, granted to champions and finalists of continental competitions in America, Asia, and Africa. Another spot is secured for France as the host country, but the spot will be freed up if they achieve all four direct qualifications. The last place will be a wild card for a former Olympic or Grand Slam champion. In case the spot reserved for the French is freed up, there will be two wild cards.

Adjustments in the qualification

There will likely be changes in the Olympic Games qualification due to entry regulations. For example, Chinese player Qinwen Zheng, the recent Australian Open finalist, already secured her spot as the champion of the Asian Games. Zheng is currently in 6th place in the race, potentially freeing up a spot.
If the qualification were to be determined today, the Americans would free up additional spots, having six players in the qualifying zone. The representatives would be Coco Gauff, Jessica Pegula, Madison Keys, and Emma Navarro, excluding Sofia Kenin (34th), Caroline Doleheide (43rd), Ashlyn Krueger (No. 58), and Danielle Collins (No. 59).

2024 Olympics Women's Race as of January 29th,

RankPlayerPointsCountry
1Coco Gauff5855USA
2Aryna Sabalenka5755BLR
3Iga Swiatek4990POL
4Jessica Pegula4045USA
5Marketa Vondrousova3240CZE
6Qinwen Zheng ✓3183CHN
7Ons Jabeur2907TUN
8Elena Rybakina2638KAZ
9Maria Sakkari2582GRE
10Jelena Ostapenko2216LAT
11Daria Kasatkina2179
12Liudmila Samsonova1964
13Madison Keys1922USA
14Barbora Krejcikova1638CZE
15Caroline Garcia1554FRA
16Emma Navarro1537USA
17Karolina Muchova1510CZE
18Ekaterina Alexandrova1469
19Beatriz Haddad Maia1434BRA
20Elina Svitolina1415UKR
21Jasmine Paolini1405ITA
22Veronika Kudermetova1378
23Dayana Yastremska1262UKR
24Linda Noskova 1232CZE
25Victoria Azarenka1098BLR
26Petra Kvitova (X)1070CZE
27Katerina Siniakova (X)1053CZE
28Marta Kostyuk1049UKR
29Leylah Fernandez1024CAN
30Marie Bouzkova (X)1012CZE
31Katie Boulter988GBR
32Elise Mertens968BEL
33Clara Burel967FRA
34Sofia Kenin (X)963USA
35Anna Kalinskaya (X)954
36Mirra Andreeva (X)938
37Xinyu Wang915CHN
38Yue Yuan906CHN
39Viktorija Golubic861SUI
40Magdalena Frech859POL
41Tamara Korpatsch855GER
42Caroline Dolehide (X)841UDA
43Lin Zhu (X)820CHN
44Sorana Cirstea819ROU
45Arantxa Rus813NED
46Lesia Tsurenko (X)802UKR
47Cristina Bucsa796ESP
48Tatjana Maria786GER
49Donna Vekic779CRO
50Ana Bogdan779ROU
51Xiyu Wang774CHN
52Belinda Bencic (X)662SUI
53Lucia Bronzetti 747ITA
54Diane Parry731FRA
55Nadia Podoroska720ARG
56Magda Linette717POL
57Anna Blinkova (X)714
58Ashlyn Krueger (X)714USA
59Danielle Collins (X)710USA
60Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (X)700
61Sara Sorribes Tormo699ESP

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