Radu Albot will take part in the Rio Olympics scheduled for August 5-21. The Moldovan tennis player will compete in Brazil based on the wild card that he got at the request of the Moldovan Tennis Federation owing to the good results he scored in the recent past, IPN reports.

Currently, Albot takes the 92nd position in the world ATP rankings. In the last tournament in which he took part – the Challenger in Prague - he reached the semifinals. In his career, he won five Challenger tournaments.

Radu Albot will be the 23rd member of Moldova’s Olympic squad. Nine Moldovan sportspersons will compete in athletics, by three in weightlifting and wrestling, by two in canoeing and swimming and by one in taekwondo, judo, archery and tennis.