MOSCOW, July 9. /TASS/. The draw for the tennis event at the upcoming 2024 Summer Olympic Games in France will be held on July 25, the press office of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) announced to TASS on Tuesday.
"The draws will take place on Thursday 25 July at 11:00 a.m. Paris time [12:00 p.m. Moscow time]," the statement reads.
Last week, the ITF said in a statement that it had approved the list of tennis players cleared to play at the 2024 Olympics and it included seven Russian athletes.
According to the ITF’s statement, Russia’s Daniil Medvedev, Roman Safiullin, Pavel Kotov, Yekaterina Alexandrova, Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnider were cleared to participate in the singles event at the Summer Olympics in France.
Russia’s Yelena Vesnina was allowed to play in the doubles’ competition where she will be paired with her teammate Alexandrova. However, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has not yet given the go-ahead for Vesnina’s participation.
The 2024 Summer Olympic Games will be hosted by the French capital of Paris between July 26 and August 11.
IOC’s regulations against Russia
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board convened for a meeting at the Olympic House in Lausanne, Switzerland, on March 19-20 and following the opening day it decided to bar athletes from Russia and Belarus from taking part in the Parade of Athletes and also exclude them from the 2024 Olympics overall medal standings.
The IOC, however, ruled that Russian athletes, cleared to participate in the upcoming Olympics, would not have to sign anything denouncing their country’s special military operation in Ukraine.
On October 12, 2023, the IOC suspended the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) until further notice after the Russian organization included the Olympic councils of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR), the Zaporozhye and Kherson Regions as its members.
The Swiss-based CAS registered on November 6, 2023 an appeal from the ROC against the IOC’s decision on the Russian governing Olympic body’s suspension.
The suspension means that the ROC cannot act as a national Olympic committee or receive financing from the Olympic movement. The IOC however reserved the right to clear Russian athletes to take part in the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024 as neutrals. Later, IOC President Thomas Bach said that Russian athletes should have no affiliation with the ROC if they want to compete at the Olympic Games.