Top-ranked Americans Coco Gauff and Taylor Fritz will lead six first-time Olympians among the 11 total U.S. selections to the Olympic Games Paris 2024.
The U.S. Olympic tennis team was announced in full on Thursday, and it will consist of four singles players each in the men's and women's draws, two men's doubles teams, two women's doubles teams, and one mixed doubles team.
The 2024 Olympic Games will be held from July 26 to Aug. 11 in Paris, with the tennis competition taking place from July 27 to Aug. 4 on the clay courts of Roland Garros.
The women’s team is made up of singles world No. 2 Gauff, No. 5 Jessica Pegula, No. 11 Danielle Collins, No. 17 Emma Navarro, and doubles No. 11 Desirae Krawczyk, and will be coached by Kathy Rinaldi, the USTA's head of women's tennis. Gauff, Pegula, Collins and Navarro will play singles, while Gauff and Pegula, and Collins and Krawczyk, will play doubles. The men’s team consists of singles world No. 12 Fritz, No. 13 Tommy Paul, No. 44 Chris Eubanks, No. 53 Marcos Giron, and doubles No. 6 Rajeev Ram and No. 15 Austin Krajicek. Fritz, Paul, Eubanks and Giron play singles, while Ram and Krajicek, and Fritz and Paul, will play doubles. The men will be coached by 2012 Olympic doubles gold medalist Bob Bryan.
The mixed doubles team will be taken from the qualified players and named at a later date.
Ram, a mixed doubles silver medalist in 2016 in Rio, will compete in his third consecutive Olympics. Competing in their second are 2021 Tokyo Olympians Pegula, Paul, Giron and Krajicek, while Gauff–who was named to compete in 2021 in Tokyo but did not compete after testing positive for COVID-19–Collins, Navarro, Krawczyk, Fritz and Eubanks will make their Olympic debuts.
The U.S. has won a world-leading 24 Olympic medals, 14 of them gold, in tennis since it returned as a full medal sport in 1988. And it will be favorites to reach the podium again on the strength of players who've excelled on the clay courts of Roland Garros before. Gauff was the 2022 singles finalist, and also reached the semifinals this year, while Collins and Pegula have previously reached the quarterfinals at the tournament. Navarro had a career-best French Open run in 2024, where she reached the fourth round, and Krawczyk won the first of her four Grand Slam mixed doubles titles in Paris three years ago.
On the men's side, Fritz and Paul both recorded their best Roland Garros results in 2024, with the latter beating the former in the 2015 French Open junior boys' final to become just the third American to win that title in the Open Era.
Eligible singles players had the opportunity to accept or decline a nomination to the 2024 Olympic tennis team. If a player declined, the next highest-ranked American singles player had the nomination extended to them.
ATHLETES TO WATCH:
- Coco Gauff - 20 (Delray Beach, Fla.), is ranked a career-high No. 2 in singles at the time of team nominations and will compete in her first Olympic Games. Gauff is the reigning US Open women’s singles champion and recently won her first Grand Slam doubles title at the French Open, with Katerina Siniakova from Czechia. Gauff has won seven career WTA singles and nine doubles titles (five with Pegula) and reached the world No.1 doubles ranking for the first time in the summer of 2022.
- Jessica Pegula - 30 (Buffalo, N.Y./Boca Raton, Fla.), is ranked No. 5 in singles at the time of team nominations and will compete in her second Olympic Games. A career-high world No. 3 in singles, Pegula has won four career WTA singles titles, including two in 2023, and seven doubles titles (five with Gauff). The 2023 WTA Finals singles runner-up, Pegula has also been ranked No. 1 in doubles, alongside Gauff.
- Rajeev Ram - 40 (Carmel, Ind.), is ranked No. 6 in doubles at the time of team nominations and is competing in his third consecutive Olympics, having competed in Tokyo 2021 and earning the mixed doubles silver medal with Venus Williams in Rio 2016. A former doubles world No. 1, Ram has won four major doubles titles – the Australian Open in 2020 and the US Open in each of the last three years. He’s won 31 overall career ATP doubles titles, including the year-end ATP Tour Finals each of the last two years. He led the University of Illinois to a 32-0 season and NCAA team title in 2003 in his one season of college tennis, also winning the NCAA doubles title.
- Taylor Fritz - 26 (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.), is ranked No. 12 in singles at the time of the team nominations and will compete in his first Olympic Games. A career-high No. 5 in singles, Fritz has won seven career ATP singles titles and in 2023 became the first American man to reach the singles Top 5 since Andy Roddick in September 2009. Fritz defeated Rafael Nadal to win the 2022 Indian Wells Masters 1000 singles title and helped clinch the inaugural United Cup for the U.S. in 2023.
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