By Erik Gudris | @atntennis | Thursday, June 20, 2024
The USTA introduced the American gamers who will signify the U.S. Olympic Tennis Group for subsequent month’s Paris Olympic Video games at Roland Garros.
The ladies’s crew consists of singles World No. 2 Coco Gauff, No. 5 Jessica Pegula, No. 11 Danielle Collins, No. 17 Emma Navarro, and in doubles World No. 11 Desirae Krawczyk.
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Coached by USTA Head of Girls’s Tennis Kathy Rinaldi, the U.S. ladies’s crew will function 4 singles gamers in Paris: Gauff, Pegula, Collins and Navarro, and two doubles groups: Gauff and Pegula, Collins and Krawczyk.
The lads’s crew consists of for singles World No. 12 Taylor Fritz, No. 13 Tommy Paul, No. 44 Chris Eubanks, No. 53 Marcos Giron, and World doubles No. 6 Rajeev Ram and No. 15 Austin Krajicek.
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Coached by 2012 Olympic doubles gold medalist and Davis Cup captain Bob Bryan, the U.S. males’s crew may even function 4 singles gamers: Fritz, Paul, Eubanks and Giron, and two doubles groups: Ram and Krajicek, Fritz and Paul.
For a wide range of causes, Ben Shelton, Sebastian Korda, Frances Tiafoe, and Madison Keys have chosen to not compete this 12 months in Paris.
The U.S. may even announce its one blended doubles crew that may compete in Paris–taken from the above-named gamers–at a later date.
Group nominations are topic to approval by america Olympic & Paralympic Committee and the Worldwide Tennis Federation. America Paralympic tennis crew might be introduced in late July.
The 2024 Olympic Video games might be held from July 26 to August 11 in Paris, with the tennis competitors staged from July 27 to August 4 at Roland Garros.
The U.S. has received 24 Olympic medals (14 gold) in males’s and ladies’s tennis because it returned as a full medal sport in 1988, greater than another nation.
Venus Williams and Serena Williams are essentially the most embellished U.S. Olympic tennis champions capturing 4 Olympic gold medals apiece.
Venus Williams swept Olympic gold in singles and doubles on the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Serena Williams received gold medals in singles and doubles on the 2012 London Olympic Video games.
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