Olympic tennis starts with a ...thud. Several top players withdraw, first day is nearly rained out.
Ivo Karlolvic and Ivan Ljubicic have withdrawn from the Olympic men's singles competition, and Tatiana Golovin and now even Ana Ivanovic have withdrawn from the women's singles competition. This is after Lindsay Davenport announced that she wouldn't be playing singles and Jelena Jankovic has intimated she might not play the singles, either.
Ljubicic was apparently still going play doubles, but he's withdrawn for the doubles competition. This has allowed Dmitry Tursunov and Mikhail Youzhny to enter the doubles. When the draw was released and everyone saw Karlovic in Roger Federer's section of the draw, most fans were excited for an early match up with significant importance. Roger has commented to reporters before how much he dislikes playing Ivo, so with the Cincy loss still fresh, this could have been a GREAT match up... 3 Comments On: "Olympic tennis starts with a ...thud. Several top players withdraw, first day is nearly rained out."
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