Coco Gauff and Taylor Fritz To Play Mixed Doubles at Paris 2024 Olympic Games
July 24, 2024 | By Press Release
Photo Credit: Garrett Ellwood/USTA
The USTA and U.S. Olympic tennis coaches Kathy Rinaldi and Bob Bryan today 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, and are both now competing 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 mixed doubles was 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 this morning, it was announced that Gauff was selected as Team USA’s female flag bearer for the Opening Ceremony, the first tennis player in Olympic history to be selected 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.
