Heather's win in Rome R1, combined with losses for almost all around her, makes her very likely to qualify.

The tennis forum table, updated to the end of Madrid, is quite misleading...

www.tennisforum.com/12-general-messages/891506-race-2016-rio-olympics-after-madrid.html

...showing Heather in 56th (last) qualifying position, but with Pennetta and Sharapova above her. So I think 58th is good enough. Heather was previously 78 points to the good of Lucic Baroni in position 59, and with 89 additional points from Rome, so far, should now be up at around 51st place.

This could give Team GB 3 extra medal chances: Heather in singles; it gives JoKo a WD partner; and I presume that Andy and Heather have been playing Hopman Cup for 2 years straight as practice (though Jamie and Jo might have a case).

I suspect that there's quite a lot of LTA funding - in, not out, it never by by-passes the blazers, obvs - dependent on the defence of one gold and one silver from London. And it possibly doesn't matter in which - a MixD gold and a MS silver could be all the same to Sport England, or whatever they're called, for all I know.

At time of going to press, I think Team GB is most likely to consist of AM; JK and HW; AM+JM; JK+HW; AM+HW.

In men's doubles, Dom lacks a partner with a high enough rank. In women's doubles, Jossanna would need to make the SFs or so in Paris, and I doubt they'll even get in. In WS, Laura has to make the RG final. Aljaz and Naomi both seem to be ineligible.

Dan and Kyle are the best hopes for a surprise last-minute run.

OK. It's official. Kyle is NOT targeting Olympic qualification. That is not to say that he wouldn't go if he made the cut, but his schedule is not being planned with Rio in mind. To be fair, it is going to be very difficult anyway, after today's unfortunate injury/withdrawal from Nice. He would probably need to make the 2nd week at RG.

Is it possible for us to have two mixed doubles teams?? Jamie/jo and andy/heather??

16 too many

All the tennis in the Olympics is daft.

(As is rugby, football and a thousand and one other mainstream sports).

Zero interest.

Seems to me that the Olympics is increasingly important to the top players; that, for examples, Nole and Fed feel their claim to GOATdom is lacking that tick.

It's also culturally very important in the Eastern European countries who have dominated the women's game, ignoring Serena.

I wouldn't be surprised if we see a significant number of retirements at the end of this season - Venus?, possibly even Federer? - from players who don't see their 'next big chance' as the Australian Open 2017, but the Olympics, 2020.

Heather for one is on record as defining her year around it; and I suspect that both Nole and Fed resent and envy Andy's title as singles gold medallist more than any other that he could hold. If he met either in Rio, they would be more desperate to win even than Andy was in his Wimbledon finals against them. It matters to the players.

And there's also a few million quid for British tennis, or the LTA at least, dependent on results in Rio.

Rankings for 6/6/16 have finally arrived.

Team will be Jo, Hev; Andy, Jamie.

And combinations of the above.