PARIS — The qualifying cutoff for the tennis events at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics comes the Monday after the French Open, adding pressure on many of the players on the Olympic bubble who are now getting their last chance to secure the ranking points necessary to reach the Games.
But a gold-medal goal has proved far from universal among the players.
The 80th-ranked Ernests Gulbis, whose surprise run to the fourth round in Paris will propel him into the top 60 and therefore inside the Olympics ranking cutoff, said he had already decided not to compete in Rio, in part because of the lack of incentives for participation.