World No. 1 and reigning French Open champion Iga Swiatek will be joined at the top of the women's singles lineup by No. 2-ranked Coco Gauff for the 2024 Olympics in Paris, according to an announcement by the International Tennis Federation. That competition will be contested on the outdoor clay courts at Roland Garros and features a strong field that includes eight of the top ten players from the WTA Rankings. There is a draw of 64 players in the singles and a draw of 32 pairs in the doubles event.
It is the only nation on the women's side to boast two players in the top ten of the singles rankings, with No.5-ranked competitor Jessica Pegula and the young Coco Gauff. Other such nations include Poland and Italy, with one male and one female in the singles top ten, according to current rankings released by the WTA and ATP, respectively.
In women's doubles, Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova will once again team up for the Czech Republic. The duo gained considerable attention after their Olympic gold win in Rio, followed by great individual results on the WTA Tour. They stopped playing together at the end of 2023, having won the WTA Finals and completed the Career Golden Slam together.
Marketa Vondrousova, who won the silver medal in Tokyo and reached the final at the 2019 French Open, will lead the Czechs in singles.
The world's number one on the men's side is Jannik Sinner, and he is going to play singles and doubles. The biggest challenges to this man in the men's category are going to come from players like Novak Djokovic, Casper Ruud of Norway, Daniil Medvedev, Roman Safiullin, and Pavel Kotov, representing Independent Neutral Athletes.
Current French Open champion Carlos Alcaraz and 14-time Roland Garros winner Rafael Nadal will participate, along with other top contenders like Alex de Minaur of Australia, Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece, and Alexander Zverev of Germany.
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