Gauff set for all three competitions at the Paris Olympics.
Coco Gauff has been confirmed for all three events at the Paris Olympics as the top-ranked American female tennis player is set to team up with world No. 11 Taylor Fritz in the mixed doubles event.
Since Gauff and Jessica Pegula already confirmed last year that they were planning on playing in the women’s event together, it was clear that the 2023 US Open champion would participate in at least two competitions at the Paris Olympics. And now that Gauff also has a mixed doubles partner, the 20-year-old has three shots at achieving her goal of winning a medal in her Olympic debut.
When it comes to her pairing with Fritz, she and the 26-year-old rarely play mixed doubles and they are set to debut as a team in Paris.
There was an indication that Gauff would play in the mixed doubles event
When revealing her expectations for Gauff at the Paris Olympics, former 22-time Slam doubles champion Mike Bryan hinted that the 20-year-old would play in all three events.
“She’s going to be good on the clay, I think that’s maybe one of her favorite surfaces, so I think she’s got something to prove. I think she loves playing for her country and she’ll put in a really good performance. I think she’s playing mixed doubles, doubles, and singles, so she’s got a lot of options to do well,” Bryan told Tennis365 last week.
Meanwhile, Gauff has one goal and she is not hiding it.
“In your phone under your vision notes, you wrote that you want to win a medal at the Olympics. Gold, silver, bronze – it doesn’t matter. But you’ve already won, you’ve made your childhood dream of playing at the Olympics, representing the United States, a real reality. And now, finally, you get to enjoy it,” Gauff wrote in an Olympic letter a couple of days ago.
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