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Coco Gauff Leads U.S. Tennis Team For Tokyo Games

In a top-down reorganizing, 17-year-old Coco Gauff drives the 12-man U.S. tennis crew into the following month’s Tokyo Olympic Games, which will stamp the first Olympics in quite a while without Serena and Venus Williams. Furthermore, seven were named to the U.S. Paralympic tennis crew on Thursday.

Joining Coco Gauff in Tokyo will be Jennifer Brady, Jessica Pegula and Alison Riske in ladies’ singles, and men’s singles players Tommy Paul, Frances Tiafoe, Tennys Sandgren and Marcos Giron.

The ladies’ copies groups will comprise of Coco Gauff and Nicole Melichar, and Pegula and Bethanie Mattek-Sands. For the men, Tiafoe will cooperate with Rajeev Ram, and Sandgren is matched with Austin Krajicek.

Blended copies groups will be named later utilizing similar pool of players.

What’s more, eight-time Paralympic medalist David Wagner drives a group comprising of individual quad player Bryan Barten, returning Paralympians Dana Mathewson, Emmy Kaiser and Shelby Baron in women’s, and Casey Ratzlaff and Conner Stroud in men’s. The Paralympic Games start Aug. 24.

Brady, the 2021 Australian Open second place, is the highest level American at No. 15 in the WTA rankings, trailed by Coco Gauff and No. 23, Pegula at No. 26 and Riske at No. 29.

Paul drives the men at No. 52. Tiafoe is next at No. 57, trailed by Giron at No. 66 and Sandgren at No. 68.

The lone two returning Olympians, Mattek-Sands and Ram, are both 2016 medalists, with the previous winning gold in blended copies and the last taking silver in blended duplicates.

Coco Gauff has been one of the game’s sensations lately, having effectively arrived at the third round at all four Grand Slams and the quarterfinals of the current year’s French Open. Tiafoe, 23, is falling off a resentful win over No. 3 Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece in the first round at Wimbledon recently.

Wagner will contend in his fifth Paralympics in the quad field, having won decorations in every one of the past four. In Rio in 2016, he won a silver decoration in duplicates and bronze award in singles.

A few of the highest level Americans quit the Olympic competition, many refering to plan clashes, worries over COVID-19 conventions or wounds. The Olympic competition starts July 24, under about fourteen days after Wimbledon.

“It will be an alternate Olympics from years past; it will detract from it,” Giron told the Associated Press. “That being said, I feel like, as a competitor, I need to go essentially once. So when I got the choice, I totally hopped on it.”

The U.S. has won 39 decorations, a record 21 of them gold, in Olympic tennis, driven by the Williams sisters, who each have four gold awards since making their Olympic presentations in 2000. They won three gold awards together, with Serena winning singles gold in 2012 and Venus winning singles gold in 2000 and blended pairs silver with Ram in 2016. That makes Venus Williams the most enhanced Olympic tennis player.

 

SOURCE : teamusa

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