Coco Gauff will turn out to be the primary tennis participant in historical past to behave as Crew USA flag bearer when she joins LeBron James on the opening ceremony for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Gauff, 20, is the world No. 2 and defending U.S. Open champion. She may even turn out to be the youngest American flag bearer in Olympic historical past, overtaking Cindy Nelson, who fulfilled the position on the 1976 Innsbruck Winter Video games in Austria.
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Gauff is representing Crew USA within the girls’s singles, doubles, and blended doubles, becoming a member of world No. 6 Jessica Pegula within the girls’s doubles and males’s No. 11 Taylor Fritz within the blended occasion.
She had initially been chosen to play within the Tokyo Video games, however a COVID-19 analysis compelled her to take a seat out in 2021.
I simply wish to say thanks to my fellow workforce usa olympians/athletes for voting and selecting me for this unbelievable honor to be the flag bearer for the opening ceremony ❤️. Thanks a lot. I’m extremely honored. 🥹🇺🇸
— Coco Gauff (@CocoGauff) July 24, 2024
The favourite for the singles title is world No. 1 Iga Swiatek, who has received the final three French Open titles at Stade Roland Garros in Paris, the venue for the Olympic tennis occasions. Swiatek has an 11-1 head-to-head report in opposition to Gauff, together with a latest victory within the semifinals of this yr’s French Open in June.
Gauff, who received the ladies’s doubles title at that match with accomplice Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic, will hope to defeat her throughout the Video games, the place Siniakova will play with Wimbledon champion and 10-time doubles Grand Slam winner Barbora Krejcikova.
The attracts for the tennis occasions will happen Thursday at 11 a.m. in Paris/5 a.m. ET.
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