Maria Sharapova endeavors to stay on course for the Rio Olympics when Russia tackle the Netherlands in the Fed Cup this weekend regardless of the possibility that she courts contention by not really playing.
The world's wealthiest sportswoman has been named in the four-lady Russian squad for the World Group conflict in Moscow notwithstanding demanding that she can't play because of a lower arm damage endured in her Australian Open quarter-last misfortune to Serena Williams.
Under capability manages, a player must be selected three times in an Olympic cycle keeping in mind the end goal to be qualified for the Games in Rio in August.
In this way, the 28-year-old star has included in only two ties following 2012, the year when she won the silver award at the London Olympics.
Sharapova was cautioned a week ago by Russian tennis boss Shamil Tarpishchev that she gambled passing up a great opportunity for Rio on the off chance that she neglected to turn out for the Fed Cup tie.
In any case, she was determined she was unrealistic to contend in Moscow to rest her harmed arm. "I'm going to go to Moscow, to be a piece of the group yet I don't think I'll be playing," she said.
Sharapova was on the up and up as she was envisioned on online networking on Thursday at the Fed Cup supper in Moscow alongside colleagues Svetlana Kuznetsova, Ekaterina Makarova, young person Darya Kasatkina and group commander Anastasia Myskina.
The International Tennis Federation (ITF), which directs the Fed Cup, said that Sharapova did not as a matter of course need to play the attach so as to satisfy her Olympic criteria.
Sharapova won every one of the four Fed Cup rubbers she played in 2015 including the two singles matches in the last which Russia lost 3-2 to the Czech Republic.
Russia have crushed the Dutch on every one of the three events they have met.
The guests' errand won't get any less demanding on Saturday and Sunday as their top-positioned player is Kiki Bertens at a modest 106 on the planet.
The Czechs, who have won four of the last five Fed Cups, begin their safeguard against Romania in Cluj with previous twofold Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova (world number nine) and Karolina Pliskova (13) driving their ambush.
Romania's top singles player Simona Halep, the world number three, has put off a nose operation to play in the tie.
Italy, the champions in 2006, 2009, 2010 and 2013, go to Marseille to face five-time victors France.
Recently delegated Australian Open champion Angelique Kerber, at a high of two on the planet, leads Germany's test at home to Switzerland in Leipzig.
Adolescent Belinda Bencic, the world number 11, is Switzerland's top player while veteran Martina Hingis will include in the duplicates.
Hingis, 35, came back to the Fed Cup a year ago surprisingly since 1998 with a specific end goal to fit the bill for the Olympics.
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