5 athletes set to symbolize Crew Canada on the Olympic Video games
Tennis Canada and the Canadian Olympic Committee have introduced the roster of Crew Canada athletes nominated to compete in tennis on the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games. The 5 athletes are recognized under:
SINGLES ENTRIES
DOUBLES ENTRIES
*Rankings as of entry deadline on Monday, June 10.
**Signifies protected rating was used for entry.
These athletes certified for the Video games by way of their WTA and ATP Tour rankings as of Monday, June 10. Andreescu and Raonic used their protected rankings to achieve direct entry. In ladies’s doubles, Fernandez will associate with Dabrowski, whereas Auger-Aliassime will pair up with Raonic in males’s doubles. Tennis will happen from July 27 to August 4 (Day 1 to 9) at Roland-Garros, the positioning of the French Open.
The entry checklist for blended doubles will even be based mostly on rating however decided by way of an on-site sign-in the week of the occasion and can comprise athletes who’re already collaborating in one of many different 4 attracts.
QUOTES:
“It’s an honor to have the ability to symbolize Canada on the Olympic Video games once more. I had lots of enjoyable on the final Video games in Tokyo and may’t wait to affix the remainder of the group in Paris. It’s an ideal expertise to have the ability to meet and spend time with athletes from different disciplines. We’re all usually so targeted inside our personal sports activities, and the Olympics provides us all an opportunity to study from one another and are available collectively as one massive household.”
–Leylah Annie Fernandez
“In sport, there isn’t a better honour than competing within the Olympics alongside the very best athletes on the earth. I’m thrilled to have the chance to take part and associate with Leylah [Fernandez]. Can’t wait to be there!”
–Gabriela Dabrowski
“Taking part in on the Olympic Video games has been an enormous purpose of mine these previous few months as I’ve been working my method again from harm. It’s at all times an honour to symbolize my nation and I can not wait to try this once more alongside Canada’s unimaginable group of athletes on the world’s largest stage in Paris. This can be a dream come true and I can’t wait to absorb the Olympic environment and provides it the whole lot.”
–Bianca Andreescu
“It’s an honour to symbolize my nation on the 2024 Olympic Video games in Paris, I’m delighted to be a part of Crew Canada. It’s a worldwide occasion that brings the world and the athletes collectively across the Olympic values of friendship, respect and excellence; I’m proud to be a part of this inspiring occasion and I stay up for carrying the Canadian flag as excessive and much as potential.”
–Félix Auger Aliassime
“It’s an actual honour to have the ability to symbolize Crew Canada on the 2024 Paris Video games. My first Olympic expertise at London 2012 was superb, and I’m certain this will probably be much more so. We, as a group, have such power in depth that we go there with the prospect of doing one thing particular. For me, this is a chance I assumed mightn’t come round once more, so I’m going to savour each second.”
–Milos Raonic
“Crew Canada’s tennis athletes are on the rise. Their historic performances over the previous few years forecast nice success in Paris. The power of this group, mixed with their focus and highly effective play, will probably be a formidable pressure on the legendary courts of Roland Garros. Get able to see our tennis stars step up and symbolize Canada loud and proud.”
–Bruny Surin, Paris 2024 Chef de Mission
“We all know there isn’t a better honour for these gamers than representing their nation. Having gained the Billie Jean King Cup and Davis Cup within the final two years, we go to those Video games with the expectation of competing for medals. The power of our ladies’s and males’s gamers has been confirmed by constant outcomes on the court docket. We’re very pleased with this group and stay up for arriving in Paris and to competing in opposition to the very best gamers on the earth.”
–Guillaume Marx – Vice President, Excessive Efficiency, Tennis Canada
Paris 2024 would be the first look at an Olympic Video games for Andreescu, the second for Fernandez (Tokyo 2020), Auger-Aliassime (Tokyo 2020) and Raonic (London 2012), and the third for Dabrowski (Rio de Janeiro 2016, Tokyo 2020). Canada’s solely Olympic tennis medal was gained at Sydney 2000 the place Daniel Nestor and Sébastien Lareau claimed gold in males’s doubles.
The Canadian roster heads to the Video games on the again of unparalleled success on the worldwide stage as reigning World Champions of ladies’s tennis having clinched the Billie Jean King Cup title final November. In the meantime, the lads’s group gained Canada’s first-ever Davis Cup title in 2022.
COACHES:
Heidi El Tabakh (Toronto, ON) – Ladies’s Tennis Coach
Frank Dancevic (Niagara Falls, ON) – Males’s Tennis Coach
SUPPORT STAFF:
Guillaume Marx (Montreal, QC) – Vice President, Excessive Efficiency, Tennis Canada
Janet Petras (Vancouver, BC) – Crew Lead
Nicolas Perrotte (Montreal, QC) – Health Coach
Alain Beaupre (Montreal, QC) – Crew Logistics
Previous to being named to Crew Canada, all nominations are topic to approval by the Canadian Olympic Committee’s Crew Choice Committee following its receipt of nominations by all Nationwide Sport Organizations.
The newest Crew Canada Paris 2024 roster might be discovered right here.
