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Coco Gauff leads the US tennis team at the Paris Olympics after missing Tokyo
Coco Gauff will lead the U.S. tennis team at the Paris Olympics, three years after missing the Tokyo Games after testing positive for COVID-19. The 20-year-old Gauff, number 2 in the rankings, is joined by number 2.
Coco Gauff will lead the US tennis team Olympic Games in Paris three years after she missed the Tokyo Games after testing positive for COVID-19.
The 20-year-old Gauff, ranked No. 2, will be joined by No. 5 Jessica Pegula, Danielle Collins and Emma Navarro in the women's singles, along with Taylor Fritz, Tommy Paul, Chris Eubanks and Marcos Giron in the men's singles.
Olympic tennis starts on July 27 at Roland Garros, site of the French Open.
The U.S. team includes six first-time Olympians, the U.S. Tennis Association said in Thursday's announcement.
Gauff is the US Open champion and has reached the semi-finals of the first two Grand Slams of the year, the Australian and French Opens. She was a finalist on the Roland Garros circuit in 2022 and will also be a medal contender in doubles.
Gauff and Pegula have won five doubles titles as a pair. Gauff won her first major doubles title with Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic at the French Open this month.
Great tested positive for COVID-19 days before the start of the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics in July 2021.
Pegula returned to action last week after a neck injury in April forced her to do so miss the French Open. She was a singles quarterfinalist there in 2022.
Collins, 30, who has said it will be her final season on the tour, won two titles this year in Miami and Charleston. The 2022 Australian Open runner-up also reached the Strasbourg final in May before exiting in the second round at the French Open, where her best finish was the 2020 quarter-finals.
Doubles player Desirae Krawczyk will team with Collins at the Paris Games. Collins and Krawczyk won a doubles title in Charleston last year. Krawczyk is a four-time Grand Slam mixed doubles champion.
Navarro reached the fourth round at Roland Garros at number 17 in his career.
Among the men, Fritz is the highest-ranked American at No. 12, followed by Paul at No. 13. Eubanks is 44th and Giron 53rd.
Paul and Giron took part in the Tokyo Games.
The US is also taking 40-year-old Rajeev Ram to his third Olympics. He will be paired with Austin Krajicek in doubles. Fritz and Paul also join forces in doubles.
Ram, who has four major doubles titles to his name, won the silver medal in mixed doubles with Venus Williams at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.
The USTA said it will announce a mixed doubles team for Paris at a later date.
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Ken Maguire, The Associated Press
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