Newly crowned Wimbledon champion and world No.1 Ash Barty will lead Australia’s 10-person tennis team, including seven debutants.
Overview
The Tennis competition gets underway at Ariake Tennis Park in Tokyo from Saturday 24 July to Sunday 1 August.
Just over a week ago, twenty-five-year-old Barty became the first Australian woman to win Wimbledon’s Venus Rosewater Dish since her idol Evonne Goolagong Cawley won in 1980.
Tennis Team
Ones To Watch
Joining the Queenslander in women’s singles will be Sam Stosur, the first Australian Tennis player to compete at five Olympics, and recent Wimbledon quarterfinalist and world No.51 Ajla Tomljanovic.
In the Women’s Doubles, Barty will team up with Storm Sanders and Stosur will team up with Ellen Perez.
On the men’s side, Rio Olympians John Millman and John Peers will make their second Olympic Games appearance.
Millman and James Duckworth will be the only Aussie men to play men’s singles after Nick Kyrgios and Alex de Minaur both withdrew.
Millman will partner Luke Saville and Australia’s No.1 doubles player John Peers will team up with Max Purcell in the men’s doubles.
The Format
The Tennis event in Tokyo will feature 64-person men’s and women’s knock out draws. 32 pairs will compete in men’s and women’s doubles and 16 pairs in mixed doubles. Singles matches are best of three tie break sets with doubles going to a 10-point tiebreak if tied at 1-set all.
The singles and doubles draws will be conducted on Thursday 22 July.
Did You Know?
- World No.1 Ash Barty will be the first Indigenous Tennis player to compete at an Olympic Games.
- Sam Stosur will be the first Australian tennis player to compete at five Olympic Games
- Tokyo 2020 Australian Tennis team will feature seven debutants
- The team is looking to win its first medal since women’s captain Alicia Molik won bronze at 2004 Athens Olympics.
- The Woodies - Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde - won Australia’s only tennis gold medal in doubles at Atlanta 1996
- Tennis legends Suzanne Lenglen (1920), Steffi Graf (1988), Venus Williams (2000), Serena Williams (2012), Rafael Nadal (2008) and Andy Murray (2016) are the only players to ever complete the Wimbledon-Olympic double in the same season
- Mixed doubles pairings are determined on site on 27 July.
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