With the Summer Olympic games scheduled in July this year, USA have announced their coaches for the Olympic tennis teams.
Kathy Rinaldi who is the former Billie Jean King cup captain and Bob Bryan, the current Davis cup captain are set to coach the USA Olympic teams this July. USA have also announced their coaches for the Paralympic games with Jon Rydberg and John Devorss the appointees.
These announcements were made by U.S. Tennis Association on Monday. The USA Tennis athletes have not been announced yet and the announcement will be made based on their WTA and ATP rankings as on June 10.
Rinaldi was part of the USA tennis team at the Tokyo Olympics three years ago while as Bryan will have his first experience as an Olympic coach in Paris. Bryan, however, is no stranger to winning medals at the Olympic as he and his brother won a bronze medal at Beijing Olympics and a gold medal four years later in London. Rydberg has participated in four Paralympic games and Devorrs has been the U.S. World Team Cup coach.
The venue for tennis will be the famous Roland Garros, the home of the French open. The Olympic games will be played between July 26 to August 11 and Paralympics from August 28 to September 8. Each team can send up to 12 players in Tennis Olympics with four men and four women allowed to take part in Singles events.
Team USA would want to leave a mark in Olympic Tennis this time around, with no medals won in Tokyo. Having said that, they also hold a record in Olympic tennis with Williams sisters winning three golds together in 2000, 2008 and 2012. The sisters have also won one singles title each with Venus winning in 2000 and younger sister Sarena in 2012.
Mohd Faisal Hakak is a sports author from Kashmir. He likes to keep tabs on the sporting world with a keen interest in football, motorsports, NBA, and other marquee sports. He is a science graduate from Islamia College Srinagar.
