Tennis Preview
As the all-time leader in Olympic tennis medals with 39 — and the leader with 24 since the sport was reinstated as an Olympic medal event in 1988 — Team USA looks for continued success in 2021 on the heels of winning three medals at the Rio Games in 2016.
The Olympic tennis competition at the Tokyo Olympic Games will follow a knockout format with 64-player men’s and women’s singles draws and 32-team men’s and women’s doubles draws, as well as a 16-team mixed doubles event, which was first contested at the London Games in 2012. Tennis at the Tokyo Games will be played July 24-Aug. 1 on hard courts at the Ariake Tennis Park in the Tokyo Olympic Park, and all matches will be best-of-three sets.
On the U.S. women’s side, the team boasts three players ranked in the world’s top 30 in No. 15 Jennifer Brady, No. 26 Jessica Pegula and No. 29 Alison Riske. The women’s doubles spot goes to lone returning Olympian on the women’s team in Bethanie Mattek-Sands, who will team with Pegula. Mattek-Sands won mixed doubles gold in Rio with Jack Sock.
The men’s team consists of four first-time Olympians in singles: No. 52 Tommy Paul, No. 57 Frances Tiafoe, No. 66 Marcus Giron and No. 68 Tennys Sandgren. Rio mixed doubles silver medalist Rajeev Ram will team with Tiafoe this time in men’s doubles, while first-time Olympian Austin Krajicek will team up with Sandgren.
Mixed doubles teams will be made from the existing pool of players.
Updated on July 20, 2021. For more information, contact the sport press officer here.