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These goodbyes the tournaments do are always awkward when the player doesn't even know if he's retiring or not. Apparently they wanted to give him a big send off but he rejected it. Again he said there's still a chance he'll be back.
 
Humphrey Rudge said:
These goodbyes the tournaments do are always awkward when the player doesn't even know if he's retiring or not. Apparently they wanted to give him a big send off but he rejected it. Again he said there's still a chance he'll be back.
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I know in the qualifiers they gave a send off to Diego Schwartzman and Dominic Thiem who are both retiring although Diego won't be retiring until the Argentina Open in February next year whilst Dominic will be retiring at the end of the year with his last tournament being the Vienna Open in October.
 
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Oh yeah in Australia and that was farcical. Poor Andy had to sit through a retirement video with goodbyes from all the players before he told the organisers he hasn't actually decided if he's retiring. 😂
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As I said above at least Dominic and Diego have said that they are retiring as they have both officially announced it whereas Andy didn't actually officially announce it. So, I imagine that they will get a goodbye video from all the players when they play their last tournaments.
 
The worst was when they did a lengthy Serena montage before all of her matches at the USO and made the opponent wait on court watching said montage. Dreadful.
 
I'm sure Rafa would love to play at the Olympics, but there are six Spanish players in the top 100, and I think they only allow four from each country. Someone is going to be mightily disappointed if Rafa gets picked.
 
Can he be entered for the doubles even if he has no ranking for doubles? There's only 1 Spanish double player in the top 100 for doubles.

Presuming two entries for the doubles means 2 teams of 2 for each drawn?

Paris 2024 will host the five traditional events (men's singles and doubles, women's singles and doubles, and mixed doubles), providing 172 quotas. The total number of athletes depends on how many players compete in more than one event.

Each NOC can qualify up to 12 athletes, six per gender, represented by up to four players (the best ranked within their country) in each of the singles draws, two entries in each of the doubles draws, and only one entry in mixed doubles.
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Yel said:
Can he be entered for the doubles even if he has no ranking for doubles? There's only 1 Spanish double player in the top 100 for doubles.

Presuming two entries for the doubles means 2 teams of 2 for each drawn?


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Rafa's set to play doubles with Alcaraz who will get direct entry into the doubles as a Top 10 player. Alcaraz can then team up with any player inside the top 300. Don't quote me on this, but I think that's how it works.

For singles, Rafa can use his protected ranking/exemptions. I'm pretty sure nobody will stop him playing if he wants to!
 
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Rafa's set to play doubles with Alcaraz who will get direct entry into the doubles as a Top 10 player. Alcaraz can then team up with any player inside the top 300. Don't quote me on this, but I think that's how it works.

For singles, Rafa can use his protected ranking/exemptions. I'm pretty sure nobody will stop him playing if he wants to!
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Maybe it’s just me but it seems quite selfish of him to use his protected ranking to take a place in the Olympics from someone else. He already has a gold in singles and doubles, sure it would be nice for him to play a final time but the person he takes it from might never get the chance again.

I think in sport you sometimes have to know when to leave to give the people below you the stage even if people want you to stay. It’s not tennis, but I really respected Firmino effectively turning down a contract extension at Liverpool because he wanted to club to use the money to reinvest and build the next generation, he could have easily taken the money but knew it wasn’t the best for the club and fans.
 
Interesting! Judging on how he was playing yesterday I think you could argue that he's playing like a top 40 player. No Spanish player would dare say anything if they took his place, which is an issue.

It would be a shame if yesterday was the last time he was ever on Chatrier. I'm torn.

Andy is the 4th ranked British player so no issue there, and the other Brits are pretty much playing at the same level as him.
 
Yel said:
It would be a shame if yesterday was the last time he was ever on Chatrier. I'm torn.
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Part of me is saying that this year will be his last year on tour whilst another part of me thinks that this year won't be his last year on tour and that he will play until next year. If he plays as well as he did yesterday I don't think he will retire, but it depends on how fit he stays for the rest of the season IMO.
 
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Meddy or Ruud for the win, I'm edging towards the former with his fashion :cool:
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