Vsevolod Kevlych, the vice president of the Ukraine Tennis Federation, tells ESPN.com that the reason why world No. 17 Alexandr Dolgopolov did not play Davis Cup for his country was because of money. As a result, Dolgopolov was ruled ineligible for the Olympics.
"The Federation [has] no possibility to pay this contract," Kevlych said. "Even for the player of such level. We'd like to make a reasonable agreement, and we really want Alex to play for the national team. Of course, not for free. But on a reasonable [condition], probably better than all other Ukrainian top players have on the team. All of us are ready to hide [our] personal ego. And we are waiting for the same from the player."
Dolgopolov said he did not want to get into specifics: "We couldn't find a solution to the problems, so we just put it on standby and I couldn't play for the team at this moment. I really don't want to take that all up officially in the press. It's been a long time since we had a few problems so we couldn't find a way to agree. I hope it will get better in the upcoming years."