The greatest men's tennis player in UVA history is heading to the Olympics.
Somdev Devvarman received a wild card entry Tuesday into the men's singles tournament in London.
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) announced the Olympic field Tuesday with 56 players receiving entry based on their ranking and eight players selected as wild card entries.
He'll represent India as one of the 64 players in the event scheduled July 30-August 5.
All ten of the top ranked players in the world will compete for gold in Wimbledon at the All England Lawn Tennis Club.
Devvarman reached a career-high of #62 in the world rankings last year but has been sidelined with an injury since November, dropping down to his current ranking of #259 in the world.
Devvarman won the 2007 and 2008 NCAA singles championships at Virginia.
He'll become the first Cavalier to compete in the Olympic tennis tournament.
"I am really happy to have the opportunity to represent my country in the Olympics," said Devvarman. "It is a great opportunity, and I look forward to competing at the Games at Wimbledon."
2012 Olympic Men's Tennis Singles Field
Argentina: Juan Martin del Potro, Juan Monaco, Carlos Berlocq, David Nalbandian
Australia: Bernard Tomic, Lleyton Hewitt*
Austria: Jurgen Melzer
Belgium: Olivier Rochus, David Goffin, Steve Darcis
Brazil: Thomaz Bellucci*
Bulgaria: Grigor Dimitrov
Canada: Milos Raonic, Vasek Pospisil*
Chinese Taipei: Yen-Hsun Lu
Colombia: Santiago Giraldo, Alejandro Falla
Croatia: Marin Cilic, Ivo Karlovic, Ivan Dodig
Cyprus: Marcos Baghdatis
Czech Republic: Tomas Berdych, Radek Stepanek
Finland: Jarkko Nieminen
France: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Gilles Simon, Gael Monfils, Richard Gasquet
Germany: Philipp Kohlschreiber
Great Britain: Andy Murray
India: Somdev Devvarman*
Italy: Andreas Seppi, Fabio Fognini
Japan: Kei Nishikori, Go Soeda, Tatsuma Ito
Kazakhstan: Mikhail Kukushkin
Luxembourg: Gilles Muller
Netherlands: Robin Haase
Poland: Lukasz Kubot
Romania: Adrian Ungur*
Russia: Mikhail Youzhny, Alex Bogomolov Jr., Nikolay Davydenko, Dmitry Tursunov
Serbia: Novak Djokovic, Janko Tipsarevic, Viktor Troicki
Slovak Republic: Lukas Lacko, Martin Klizan
Slovenia: Blaz Kavcic*
Spain: Rafael Nadal, David Ferrer, Nicolas Almagro, Fernando Verdasco
Switzerland: Roger Federer, Stanislas Wawrinka
Tunisia: Malek Jaziri*
Ukraine: Sergiy Stakhovsky*
USA: John Isner, Andy Roddick, Donald Young, Ryan Harrison
Uzbekistan: Denis Istomin
* ITF wild card selection
