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Emma Raducanu has turned down the prospect to play for Nice Britain at this summer time’s Olympics – however two-time gold medallist Andy Murray is ready to compete in Paris.
Raducanu, 21, is ranked too low to qualify as she continues to come back again from surgical procedure on her wrists and ankle final 12 months.
The 2021 US Open champion was supplied one in every of two locations by the Worldwide Tennis Federation (ITF) which might be reserved for former Grand Slam champions.
Raducanu missed the French Open – performed on the identical clay courts of Roland Garros that can stage the
Olympics – to make sure she is match for the British grass-court swing.
“I’ve had varied conversations with Emma during the last couple of weeks and a barely longer interval the place it’s very clear how a lot being a part of a British group at an Olympics would imply to her,” stated Iain Bates, head of GB’s Olympic tennis group.
“I feel she feels this isn’t going to be the fitting timing for her for this summer time.
“She’s hopefully received many Olympics forward of her. I’m very comfy with the choice that she’s made.”
Nice Britain’s nominations have been introduced at Queen’s Membership on Sunday.
The ITF will announce the complete entry listing for Paris 2024 on 4 July.
Murray, who received gold at London 2012 and Rio 2016, has been given an ITF place for what may very well be the ultimate event of the 37-year-old’s profession.
Murray stated earlier this 12 months he didn’t anticipate to “play a lot previous this summer time”.
Cameron Norrie, Jack Draper and Dan Evans are set to affix Murray within the males’s singles.
Katie Boulter is the one British girl to have certified by rating for the Video games.
Murray and Dan Evans have additionally been nominated for the boys’s doubles.
Joe Salisbury and Neal Skupski will play within the males’s doubles by advantage of their world rating.
Boulter and Heather Watson have been nominated for the ladies’s doubles, as have Harriet Dart and Maia Lumsden.
The Olympic tennis event will run from 27 July to 4 August at Roland Garros, which yearly hosts the French Open.
Gamers will compete throughout 5 medal occasions: ladies’s singles, males’s singles, ladies’s doubles, males’s doubles and blended doubles.