Thanks to the absences of John Isner and Sam Querrey, an 18-year-old and a man ranked No. 262 in the world have a shot at the U.S. Olympic men’s tennis team.
Isner and Querrey are two of the top three U.S. men in ATP rankings. The U.S. can send a maximum of four men’s singles players to Rio, based on last week’s ATP rankings.
Both Isner and Querrey are committed to ATP events in August that will cause them to miss the Rio Olympics after competing in 2012 and 2008, respectively.
Without them, the top four remaining U.