ATLANTA – When the Summer Olympics were postponed from 2020 to 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the delay came with an unforeseen gift.
Players who hadn’t performed as well as they'd hoped over the previous four years were given an additional 12 months to improve their position in the Rolex Rankings. On the other hand, players who were already well-positioned to make a trip to the Olympics needed to maintain their position for an additional year in order to secure their spot on their respective teams.
To those players' advantage, the Rolex Rankings were frozen between March 2020 and July 2020.