Team USA confirm Paris Olympic games tennis lineup with Coco Gauff and Taylor Fritz headlining – Tennis365

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 semifinals 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 and Pegula claimed the French Open women’s doubles title this month for their first major doubles title as a team.

They have won five doubles titles as a pair and Gauff has held the WTA No 1 ranking on doubles.

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.

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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.

Paul and Giron competed at the Tokyo Games.

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Team USA are also taking 40-year-old doubles veteran Rajeev Ram to his third Olympics. He will pair up with Austin Krajicek in Paris.

Fritz and Paul will also join forces in doubles team made up of the top two ranked singles players.

Ram, who has four Grand Slam doubles titles, also won the mixed doubles silver medal with Venus Williams at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.

The USTA have confirmed that they will announce a single mixed doubles team for Paris in due course.