{"id":7731,"date":"2012-06-22T13:19:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T13:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=7731"},"modified":"2012-06-22T13:19:42","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T13:19:42","slug":"zvonareva-confirmed-for-london-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=7731","title":{"rendered":"Zvonareva confirmed for London Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/vera-zvonareva_1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Zvonareva confirmed for London Olympics\" width=\"250\" style=\"float: left; border: 1px solid black; margin: 6px;\" \/><strong>Moscow:<\/strong> Russia&#8217;s Vera Zvonareva has been picked for the London Olympic tennis tournament despite ongoing injury problems, the Russian Tennis Federation said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The other Russians confirmed for the Olympics are Maria Sharapova, who will carry the Russian flag at the opening ceremony, as well as Maria Kirilenko, Nadia Petrova, Elena Vesnina and Ekaterina Makarova.<\/p>\n<p>Zvonareva announced her withdrawal from the French Open last month because of an injury to her right shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>Svetlana Kuznetsova will join the women&#8217;s team in London as a potential replacement for any injured players, Russian tennis chief Shamil Tarpishchev said on the federation&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>In the doubles event, Kirilenko will play with Petrova and Makarova will team up with Vesnina. The federation did not specify who would take the four singles berths.<\/p>\n<p>In the men&#8217;s event, Mikhail Youzhny, Nikolay Davydenko, Alexander Bogomolov and Dmitry Tursunov have been selected.<\/p>\n<p>The doubles pairs will be Youzhny and Davydenko, and Bogomolov and Tursunov.<\/p>\n<p>Tarpishchev said Russia will name its mixed doubles pairs in the middle of Wimbledon, which starts June 25. <strong>(IANS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/vera-zvonareva_1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Zvonareva confirmed for London Olympics\" width=\"250\" style=\"float: left; border: 1px solid black; margin: 6px;\" \/><strong>Moscow:<\/strong> Russia&#8217;s Vera Zvonareva has been picked for the London Olympic tennis tournament despite ongoing injury problems, the Russian Tennis Federation said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The other Russians confirmed for the Olympics are Maria Sharapova, who will carry the Russian flag at the opening ceremony, as well as Maria Kirilenko, Nadia Petrova, Elena Vesnina and Ekaterina Makarova.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[5371,267,926,909,1740,3465,497],"class_list":["post-7731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news-olympics","tag-ekaterina-makarova","tag-elena-vesnina","tag-london-olympic","tag-maria-kirilenko","tag-maria-sharapova","tag-nadia-petrova","tag-vera-zvonareva"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Zvonareva confirmed for London Olympics - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=7731\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zvonareva confirmed for London Olympics - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Moscow: Russia&#039;s Vera Zvonareva has been picked for the London Olympic tennis tournament despite ongoing injury problems, the Russian Tennis Federation said Friday. 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