By Erik Gudris | @attennis | Thursday June 20, 2024
The USTA has 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 quantity 2 singles Coco GauffQuantity 5 Jessica Pegula, No. 11 Danielle Collinsno. 17 Emma Navarroand in doubles World quantity 11 Desirae Krawczyk.
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Coached by USTA head of girls’s tennis Kathy Rinaldi, The U.S. ladies’s crew in Paris will consist of 4 singles gamers: Gauff, Pegula, Collins and Navarro, and two doubles groups: Gauff and Pegula, Collins and Krawczyk.
The lads’s singles crew consists of the world quantity 12 Taylor Fritz No. 13 Tommy Paulno. 44 Chris Eubanksno. 53 Marcos Gironand 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 consist of 4 singles gamers: Fritz, Paul, Eubanks and Giron, and two doubles groups: Ram and Krajicek, Fritz and Paul.
It’s for a number of causes Ben Shelton, Sebastian Korda, Frances Tiafoe, And Madison Keys have chosen to not take part in Paris this yr.
The US may even announce its solely blended doubles crew to compete in Paris at a later date β drawn from the aforementioned gamers.
Group nominations are topic to approval by the USA Olympic and Paralympic Committee and the Worldwide Tennis Federation. The USA Paralympic tennis crew might be introduced in late July.
The 2024 Olympics might be held from July 26 to August 11 in Paris, whereas the tennis competitors will happen at Roland Garros from July 27 to August 4.
The US has gained 24 Olympic medals (14 of them gold) in males’s and ladies’s tennis because it returned as a full medal sport in 1988, greater than some other nation.
Venus Williams and Serena Williams are essentially the most embellished American Olympic tennis champions, capturing 4 Olympic gold medals every.
Venus Williams gained Olympic gold in singles and doubles on the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Serena Williams gained gold medals in singles and doubles on the 2012 London Olympics.
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