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Ivo Karlolvic and Ivan Ljubicic have withdrawn from the Olympic men's singles competition, and Tatiana Golovin and now even Ana Ivanovic have withdrawn from the women's singles competition.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Ljubicic was apparently still going play doubles, but he's withdrawn for the doubles competition.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."

 
Throw Up the Deuce is already calling the Olympic tennis event a disaster, and notes the Sisters Williams have been nursing injuries too (??? - I hadn't read this anywhere):

http://kthanxbye.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/ivanovic-out-disaster-continues-for-olympic-tennis/


Looks like the event is getting into gear: Roger and Rafa both played singles AND doubles and won their matches, Jelena Jankovic did play, and won, and Venus Williams said her knee was OK...

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/tennis/news?slug=ap-ten-tennis&prov=ap&type=lgns

It could have been awesome but it's still good. Interesting match ups that wouldn't necessarily happen in early round play at big tournaments. Tough timing for lots of players missing 3 US Open series events and getting back just before the US Open. Lots of injuries these days. Modern high-level tennis is tough on the body.



 
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