Coco Gauff and Taylor Fritz | Photo via Wikimedia (Gauff-US Open/Fritz-Keith Allison)
Paris, FRANCE — The USTA and U.S. Olympic tennis coaches Kathy Rinaldi and Bob Bryan announced that top-ranked Americans Coco Gauff and Taylor Fritz will play mixed doubles together for the U.S. at the Paris 2024 Games.
The No. 2-ranked Gauff and No. 11-ranked Fritz are the top-ranked Americans in singles. They compete in singles, doubles, and mixed doubles at the Olympics. They are the only mixed doubles team the U.S. will nominate.
American teams have brought home three mixed doubles medals in the three Games since they were reintroduced to the Olympics: Jack Sock and Bethanie Mattek-Sands, Gold, Rio 2016; Rajeev Ram and Venus Williams, Silver, Rio 2016; Mike Bryan and Lisa Raymond, Bronze, London 2012.
The 2024 Olympic Games will be held from July 26 to Aug. 11 in Paris, with the tennis competition staged from July 27 to Aug. 4 at Roland Garros.
Earlier today, Gauff was also selected as Team USA’s female flag bearer for the Opening Ceremony, the first tennis player in Olympic history to be chosen as a flag bearer. Gauff joins three-time Olympian LeBron James as the two elected flag bearers, who will lead the U.S. delegation on the Seine River on Friday.
–With Jay Domingo/PDM
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