Gauff, Fritz lead six first-time Olympians among 11 U.S. selections to Paris

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.