5 athletes set to characterize Group Canada on the Olympic Video games
Tennis Canada and the Canadian Olympic Committee have introduced the roster of Group 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 through their WTA and ATP Tour rankings as of Monday, June 10. Andreescu and Raonic used their protected rankings to realize 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 combined doubles may even be based mostly on rating however decided through an on-site sign-in the week of the occasion and can comprise athletes who’re already taking part in one of many different 4 attracts.
QUOTES:
“It’s an honor to have the ability to characterize Canada on the Olympic Video games once more. I had a whole lot of enjoyable on the final Video games in Tokyo and might’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 be taught from one another and are available collectively as one large household.”
–Leylah Annie Fernandez
“In sport, there is no such thing as a better honour than competing within the Olympics alongside the perfect athletes on this planet. 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 aim of mine these previous few months as I’ve been working my manner again from damage. It’s all the time an honour to characterize my nation and I can’t wait to do this once more alongside Canada’s unimaginable group of athletes on the world’s greatest stage in Paris. It is a dream come true and I can’t wait to absorb the Olympic ambiance and provides it all the pieces.”
–Bianca Andreescu
“It’s an honour to characterize my nation on the 2024 Olympic Video games in Paris, I’m delighted to be a part of Group 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 look ahead to carrying the Canadian flag as excessive and much as potential.”
–Félix Auger Aliassime
“It’s an actual honour to have the ability to characterize Group Canada on the 2024 Paris Video games. My first Olympic expertise at London 2012 was wonderful, and I’m positive this can be much more so. We, as a group, have such energy in depth that we go there with the prospect of doing one thing particular. For me, this is a chance I believed mightn’t come round once more, so I’m going to savour each second.”
–Milos Raonic
“Group Canada’s tennis athletes are on the rise. Their historic performances over the previous few years forecast nice success in Paris. The energy of this group, mixed with their focus and highly effective play, can be a formidable power on the legendary courts of Roland Garros. Get able to see our tennis stars step up and characterize Canada loud and proud.”
–Bruny Surin, Paris 2024 Chef de Mission
“We all know there is no such thing as 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 energy of our ladies’s and males’s gamers has been confirmed by constant outcomes on the court docket. We’re very happy with this group and look ahead to arriving in Paris and to competing towards the perfect gamers on this planet.”
–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 boys’s group gained Canada’s first-ever Davis Cup title in 2022.
COACHES:
Heidi El Tabakh (Toronto, ON) – Girls’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) – Group Lead
Nicolas Perrotte (Montreal, QC) – Health Coach
Alain Beaupre (Montreal, QC) – Group Logistics
Previous to being named to Group Canada, all nominations are topic to approval by the Canadian Olympic Committee’s Group Choice Committee following its receipt of nominations by all Nationwide Sport Organizations.
The most recent Group Canada Paris 2024 roster may be discovered right here.
