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Team USA confirm Paris Olympic games tennis lineup with Coco Gauff and Taylor Fritz headlining
By James Richardson,
2024-06-20
Coco Gauff will move up to world No 2 after the French Open.
US Open champion Coco Gauff will lead the Team USA tennis squad at the Paris Olympics.
Gauff heads to the games three years after missing out on Tokyo 2020 because of COVID-19 infection.
The world No 2 is set to be joined by Jessica Pegula, Danielle Collins and Emma Navarro in women’s singles.
Meanwhile Taylor Fritz, Tommy Paul, Christopher Eubanks and Marcos Giron are the elected men’s singles players.
The Olympic tennis competition starts on 27 July and will be staged at Roland Garros, the famous site of the French Open.
Team USA features six first-time Olympians, as the United States Tennis Association confirmed in their announcement.
The 20-year-old world No 2, Gauff has reached the semi-finals at this year’s first two Grand Slams, the Australian and French Open. She was a finalist on the Roland Garros clay in 2022 and is all set to be a medal contender in doubles, as well alongside frequent partner Pegula.
Gauff went on to claim the French Open women’s doubles title this month alongside multiple Grand Slam winner Katerina Siniakova from the Czech Republic for their first major doubles title as a team.
Gauff has held the WTA No 1 ranking on doubles while she has won five doubles titles with Pegula.
Pegula has only just returned to action from a neck injury she suffered in April that forced her to miss the French Open singles competition.
The 30-year-old Collins, who has confirmed that this will be her final season on the tour, has also won two titles this year in Miami and Charleston.
The 2022 Australian Open runner-up reached the Strasbourg final in May in her best performance this term on clay before a second-round exit at the French Open, her best result at the clay Slam was reaching the quarterfinals in 2020.
Doubles specialist Desirae Krawczyk will team up with Collins at the Paris Games.
Collins and Krawczyk have tasted success as a pairing having won the title last year in Charleston.
Krawczyk is a Grand Slam champion in mixed doubles four times over.
Navarro, reached the fourth round at Roland Garros and has attained new heights this season.
Fritz is the highest-ranked American man in the team at No 12 on the ATP ladder, and is closely followed by Paul at No 13. Eubanks is 44th and Giron 53rd. Ben Shelton has opted to skip the games this time around.
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