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,
Rank Player Points Country
1 Coco Gauff 5855 USA
2 Aryna Sabalenka 5755 BLR
3 Iga Swiatek 4990 POL
4 Jessica Pegula 4045 USA
5 Marketa Vondrousova 3240 CZE
6 Qinwen Zheng ✓ 3183 CHN
7 Ons Jabeur 2907 TUN
8 Elena Rybakina 2638 KAZ
9 Maria Sakkari 2582 GRE
10 Jelena Ostapenko 2216 LAT
11 Daria Kasatkina 2179
12 Liudmila Samsonova 1964
13 Madison Keys 1922 USA
14 Barbora Krejcikova 1638 CZE
15 Caroline Garcia 1554 FRA
16 Emma Navarro 1537 USA
17 Karolina Muchova 1510 CZE
18 Ekaterina Alexandrova 1469
19 Beatriz Haddad Maia 1434 BRA
20 Elina Svitolina 1415 UKR
21 Jasmine Paolini 1405 ITA
22 Veronika Kudermetova 1378
23 Dayana Yastremska 1262 UKR
24 Linda Noskova 1232 CZE
25 Victoria Azarenka 1098 BLR
26 Petra Kvitova (X) 1070 CZE
27 Katerina Siniakova (X) 1053 CZE
28 Marta Kostyuk 1049 UKR
29 Leylah Fernandez 1024 CAN
30 Marie Bouzkova (X) 1012 CZE
31 Katie Boulter 988 GBR
32 Elise Mertens 968 BEL
33 Clara Burel 967 FRA
34 Sofia Kenin (X) 963 USA
35 Anna Kalinskaya (X) 954
36 Mirra Andreeva (X) 938
37 Xinyu Wang 915 CHN
38 Yue Yuan 906 CHN
39 Viktorija Golubic 861 SUI
40 Magdalena Frech 859 POL
41 Tamara Korpatsch 855 GER
42 Caroline Dolehide (X) 841 UDA
43 Lin Zhu (X) 820 CHN
44 Sorana Cirstea 819 ROU
45 Arantxa Rus 813 NED
46 Lesia Tsurenko (X) 802 UKR
47 Cristina Bucsa 796 ESP
48 Tatjana Maria 786 GER
49 Donna Vekic 779 CRO
50 Ana Bogdan 779 ROU
51 Xiyu Wang 774 CHN
52 Belinda Bencic (X) 662 SUI
53 Lucia Bronzetti 747 ITA
54 Diane Parry 731 FRA
55 Nadia Podoroska 720 ARG
56 Magda Linette 717 POL
57 Anna Blinkova (X) 714
58 Ashlyn Krueger (X) 714 USA
59 Danielle Collins (X) 710 USA
60 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (X) 700
61 Sara Sorribes Tormo 699 ESP
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