The ITF has announced the publication of its official Olympic Book ‘Journey to Beijing – Tennis celebrates the Olympics’. Over 40 of the world’s leading tennis players took part in the ITF project to help promote the 2008 Beijing Olympic Tennis Event.
The 140-page publication features a series of specially commissioned photographs of the game’s top names dressed as athletes from other summer or winter Olympic sports. These are accompanied by interviews with the players talking about their Olympic memories and hopes for Beijing.
The ITF announced also the direct acceptance list for the 2008 Olympic Tennis Event in singles and doubles. For both men and women, this is the strongest field ever to enter the Olympic Tennis Event since tennis returned as a full medal sport in Seoul 1988.
All five of the top men will compete in Beijing. In the top twenty only Andy Roddick (USA) and Richard Gasquet (FRA) declined to participate and Fernando Verdasco (ESP) is ineligible because he is the fifth qualified player from Spain.
As already announced by the Cyprus Tennis Federation, Cyprus will be prouldy represented by our champion Marcos Baghdatis who will be taking part in the Olympics for the second time in his career, after his first appearance in the Olympics of Athens, in 2004.
To download Marcos Baghdatis pages in the Olympic Book, please click here.
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