Tennis Olympics 2012 - Women's Singles Entry List

Thirty four countries will be represented at the London Olympics 2012 women's singles tennis tournament that starts on July 28. 56 women tennis players gained direct entry into the draw based on their world rankings as of 11 June 2012, after the 2012 French Open. 8 other players were given wildcard entries - 6 ITF final qualification places and 2 tripartite commission invitation places. 2008 Olympic gold medalist in singles Elena Dementieva will not be competing as she resigned from tennis in 2012.

Russia swept all three women's singles medals in 2008 but only Vera Zvonareva is returning for the London Olympics. Last Olympics' silver medalist, former world no. 1 Dinara Safina doesn't have a world ranking due to inactivity - she ended 2011 ranked no. 129 in the world. All four current Grand Slam champions - Victoria Azarenka, Maria Sharapova, Serena Williams, and Samantha Stosur - will be in attendance along with world no. 3 Agnieszka Radwanska. The venue for the Olympic women's tennis tournament is at the All England Club where the yearly Wimbledon grand slam championship takes place.

2012 London Olympics: Women's Tennis singles entry list

- Australia: Samantha Stosur
- Belarus: Victoria Azarenka
- Belgium: Yanina Wickmayer, Kim Clijsters
- Bulgaria: Tsvetana Pironkova
- Canada: Aleksandra Wozniak
- China, P.R.: Li Na, Peng Shuai, Zheng Jie
- Chinese Taipei: Hsieh Su-Wei
- Croatia: Petra Martic
- Czech Republic: Petra Kvitova, Lucie Safarova, Petra Cetkovska, Klara Zakopalova
- Denmark: Caroline Wozniacki
- Estonia: Kaia Kanepi
- France: Alize Cornet (*)
- Georgia: Anna Tatishvili (*)
- Germany: Angelique Kerber, Sabine Lisicki, Andrea Petkovic, Julia Goerges
- Great Britain: Anne Keothavong (*), Elena Baltacha (*)
- Hungary: Agnes Szavay
- Israel: Shahar Peer
- Italy: Sara Errani, Flavia Pennetta, Roberta Vinci, Francesca Schiavone
- Kazakhstan: Galina Voskoboeva, Yaroslava Shvedova
- Liechtenstein: Stephanie Vogt (#)
- New Zealand: Marina Erakovic
- Paraguay: Veronica Cepede Royg (#)
- Poland: Agnieszka Radwanska, Urszula Radwanska
- Romania: Monica Niculescu, Simona Halep, Sorana Cirstea, Irina-Camelia Begu
- Russia: Maria Sharapova, Vera Zvonareva, Maria Kirilenko, Nadia Petrova
- Serbia: Ana Ivanovic, Jelena Jankovic
- Slovak Republic: Dominika Cibulkova, Daniela Hantuchova
- Slovenia: Polona Hercog
- Spain: Anabel Medina Garrigues, Carla Suarez Navarro, Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez, Silvia Soler-Espinosa
- Sweden: Sofia Arvidsson
- Switzerland: Timea Bacsinszky
- Tunisia: Ons Jabeur (*)
- Ukraine: Alona Bondarenko, Kateryna Bondarenko (*)
- USA: Serena Williams, Christina McHale, Venus Williams, Varvara Lepchenko

(*) ITF Place
(#) Tripartite Commission Invitation Place

The London Olympics 2012 women's tennis singles entry list is taken from the International Tennis Federation website.