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US Olympic team notebook--Saturday |
U.S. OLYMPIC TENNIS TEAM NOTEBOOK
The United States Olympic tennis team - consisting of six men and four women - will "go for the gold" in men's and women's singles and doubles at the tennis competition at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.
U.S. MEN'S TEAM
Bob Bryan (Camarillo, Calif.) Doubles (with M. Bryan)
Mike Bryan (Camarilllo, Calif.) Doubles (with B. Bryan)
Taylor Dent (Huntington Beach, Calif.) Singles
Mardy Fish (Tampa, Fla./Vero Beach, Fla.) Singles and Doubles (with Roddick)
Andy Roddick (Austin, Texas, Boca Raton, Fla.) Singles and Doubles (with Fish)
Vince Spadea (Boca Raton, Fla.) Singles
Coach Patrick McEnroe (New York, N.Y.)
Asst. Coach Dean Goldfine (Aventura, Fla.)
U.S. WOMEN'S TEAM
Martina Navratilova (Sarasota, Fla.) Doubles (with Raymond)
Lisa Raymond (Wayne, Pa.) Singles and Doubles (with Navratilova)
Chanda Rubin (Lafayette, La.) Women's Singles and Doubles (with V. Williams)
Venus Williams (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.) Women's Singles and Doubles (with Rubin)
Coach Zina Garrison (Houston, Texas)
Asst. Coach Lori McNeil (Houston, Texas)
Jennifer Capriati was originally named to the women's team to compete in singles, but withdrew from the competition on August 10 with a right hamstring injury. Serenia Williams was also originally named to the women's team, but withdrew from the competition on August 11 with a left knee inury.
SCHEDULE OF PLAY - The tennis competition opens up on Sunday, August 15 with singles and doubles matches beginning at 10 am local time in Athens. Check www.usocpressbox.org <http://www.usocpressbox.org> for the schedules of American players as the event begins.
Sunday, August 15 10 am and 5 pm (two sessions) First Round Singles and Doubles
Monday, August 16 10 am and 5 pm (two sessions) First Round Singles and Doubles
Tuesday, August 17 10 am and 5 pm (two sessions) Second Round Singles and Doubles
Wednesday, August 18 5 pm (one session) Third Round Singles, QF Doubles
Thursday, August 19 5 pm (one session) Quarterfinal Singles, Men's Doubles
Semifinals, Women's Doubles Quarterfinals
Friday, August 20 5 pm (one session) Singles Semifinals, Men's Doubles
Bronze Medal Match, Women's Doubles Semifinals
Saturday, August 21 5 pm (one session) Women's Singles Gold Medal Match,
Men's Doubles Gold Medal Match, Men's Singles Bronze Medal Match, Women's Singles Bronze Medal Match, Women's Doubles Bronze Medal Match.
Sunday, August 22 5 pm (one session) Men's Singles Gold Medal Match,
Women's Doubles Gold Medal Match.
U.S. TV TIMES - The Olympic tennis competition will air on Bravo and USA Network, with USA Network televising the gold medal matches in both men's and women's singles live. Jim Courier, member of the 1992 U.S. Olympic Team and the No. 1 seed in Olympic men's singles that year, will join former U.S. Davis Cup star Barry MacKay as part of the Bravo/USA broadcast team.
Bravo's windows of coverage that will include coverage of the tennis competition are as follows;
Sunday, August 15 4 am to noon; Midnight to 1 am ET
Monday, August 16 5 am to noon; 5 pm to 8 pm ET
Tuesday, August 17 5 am to noon; 5 pm to 8 pm ET
Wednesday, August 18 5 pm to 8 pm ET
Thursday, August 19 5 am to noon; 5 pm to 8 pm ET
USA's coverage of Olympic tennis is as follows;
Friday, August 20 7 am to noon ET
Saturday, August 21 10 am to 5 pm ET
Sunday, August 22 10 am to 3 pm ET
DEFENDING CHAMP - Venus Williams enters the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens as the defending champions in the women's singles and doubles competitions. The only players to successfully defend gold medals at the Olympic Games in tennis are Mary Joe Fernandez and Gigi Fernandez who were able to defend an Olympic gold medal when they followed their 1992 gold medal performance in women's doubles with their triumph in 1996.
GOLD MEDALS DEFENSES IN MODERN OLYMPIC TENNIS ERA (since 1988)
1988 Olympic Champions 1992 Performance
Steffi Graf (FRG) Lost in Gold Medal Match
Miloslav Mecir (CZE) Did Not Play
Ken Flach and Robert Seguso (USA) Did Not Play
Zina Garrison and Pam Shriver (USA) Did Not Play (Garrison played only singles in 1992)
1992 Olympic Champions 1996 Performance
Jennifer Capriati (USA) Did Not Play
Marc Rosset (SUI) Lost in Third Round
Boris Becker and Michael Stich (GER) Did Not Play
Mary Joe and Gigi Fernandez (USA) WON GOLD MEDAL
1996 Olympic Champions 2000 Performance
Lindsay Davenport (USA) Lost in Second Round
Andre Agassi (USA) Did Not Play
Mark Woodforde and Todd Woodbridge (AUS) Lost in Gold Medal Match
Mary Joe Fernandez and Gigi Fernandez (USA) Did Not Play
2000 Olympic Champions 2004 Performance
Venus Williams (USA) Will compete in women's singles
Yevgeny Kafelnikov (RUS) Will Not Compete (Retired)
Daniel Nestor and Sebastien Lareau Nestor will compete. Lareau is retired
Venus Willams and Serena Williams Will compete in women's doubles
SISTERS SUPREME - Venus Williams became a part of Olympic history at the 2000 Games in Sydney, when she won singles and doubles Olympic gold Williams joined Helen Wills as the only women to win Olympic gold medals in singles and doubles. She and Serena Williams also became the first set of sisters to ever win Olympic gold medals in tennis.
Following her performance in Sydney, Williams - and her sister Serena - turned the women's tennis world into their own family tennis outing as the two sisters would go on to win seven of the next 11 Grand Slam women's singles titles. Venus won her third and fourth career Grand Slam singles titles at Wimbledon and the US Open in 2001. Her 2001 US Open singles final round victory came at the expense of Serena in the first Grand Slam final played between siblings since Wimbledon in 1884 when Maud Watson defeated sister Lillian Watson. Venus reached subsequent Grand Slam singles final at the 2002 French Open, Wimbledon, US Open, the 2003 Australian Open and Wimbledon in 2003 - only to lose to sister Serena in the final.
GIBSON'S LEGACIES - As the tennis world nears the first anniversary of the death of Althea Gibson, it is interesting to note that the 2004 U.S. Olympic Women's Tennis Team consists of four "legacies" of Gibson in U.S. players Venus Williams and Chanda Rubin, as well as U.S. Coach Zina Garrison, U.S. Assistant Coach Lori McNeil. Gibson, who died on September 28, 2003, became the "Jackie Robinson of tennis" in 1950 becoming the first black player to compete in the U.S. Championships, and also became the first black champion at a Grand Slam event with wins at the French Championships in 1956, the U.S. Championships and Wimbledon in 1957 and 1958. Tennis was not an Olympic sport when Gibson competed, however, she did compete for the U.S. at the Pan American Games in 1959.
Coaching the U.S. team is Zina Garrison, who became the first black player to win Olympic gold when she and Pam Shriver won the women's doubles title at the Seoul Games in 1988. Garrison, a friend of Gibson's until her death, reached the women's singles final at Wimbledon in 1990, becoming the first black woman to do so since Gibson in 1958. Garrison is the first black woman to coach the U.S. Olympic tennis team and the U.S. Fed Cup team.
Joining Garrison in Athens is Lori McNeil, who like Gibson, took the torch from Gibson in the 1980s and 1990s to become one of the great black tennis players in the world. McNeil, the assistant women's tennis coach in Athens, was a Wimbledon semifinalist in 1994 and a U.S. Open semifinalist in 1987. She is also a coach in the USTA's High Peformance Program.
Following Garrison and McNeil's careers, Olympic team member Chanda Rubin became the pre-eminent African-American tennis player, reaching the top 10 in the world's rankings and reaching the semifinals of the Australian Open in 1996.
Venus and Serena Williams continued the Gibson legacy by becoming the first black women to win Grand Slam tournaments titles - Serena breaking through to win the 1999 US Open, becoming the first black player to win a Grand Slam and the US Championships since Gibson in 1958 and Venus breaking through to become the first black women to win Wimbledon in 2000.
AROD GOES FOR TWO - Andy Roddick is so excited about playing for a gold medal at the 2004 Olympics that he's going to go for it twice. Roddick will be competing in both singles and doubles at the Games - leaving himself open for potentially playing 11 matches in eight days under the Athenian sun. From the moment Patrick McEnroe was named coach for the U.S. men's team, Roddick had lobbied hard to receive the second men's doubles position made up of singles players. McEnroe obliged and gave Roddick and good friend Mardy Fish the nod as the No. 2 doubles team behind Bob and Mike Bryan. Roddick's No. 2 singles ranking makes him a medal favorite in singles, but his doubles ranking of No. 230 (ranking for week of August 9) make he and Fish underdogs for medals in men's doubles. Roddick has enjoyed success on the doubles court, winning two titles, including the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships in Houston with Fish in 2002. Roddick and Fish, classmates at Boca Prep High School in Florida, who used to live together in high school at the Roddick family home in Boca Raton, hold a 6-3 career record as doubles partners in ATP level events.
The last American men to play singles and doubles at the Olympics were Mal Washington and Andre Agassi at the 1996 Games. Agassi won the gold in men's singles that year. Washington reached the quarterfinals of men's singles and, as a team, Agassi and Washington lost in the second round of men's doubles. In women's competition, Venus Williams won gold in both women's singles and doubles at the 2000 Olympics.
Roddick has quickly established himself as the torch-bearer of the next wave of American tennis, winning his first Grand Slam tournament title at the 2003 US Open, coincidentally the tournament where Pete Sampras officially announced his retirement and the last event that Sampras competed in and won in 2002. The man who has hit the fastest serve ever recorded at 152 mph, has never wavered in his commitment to representing his country. He has been a member of the U.S. Davis Cup team since 2001 and holds a 12-3 record - all in singles. Roddick also has big plans for the Athens Games in 2004.
Roddick was born in Omaha, Neb., and grew up in Austin, Texas and Boca Raton, Fla. He graduated from Boca Raton (Fla.) Prep in May of 2000 and participated on the varsity tennis and basketball teams. He is the youngest of three boys - oldest brother Lawrence was an accomplished springboard diver and a member of the U.S. Senior National Team in diving. Brother John was also an accomplished tennis player, regarded as one of America's best tennis prospects in 1993 and spent four years at the Univ. of Georgia before back problems forced him to quit competitive tennis.
Only one American man (Andre Agassi in 1996) has won Olympic gold in men's singles since tennis returned to full-medal status at the 1988 Olympic Games. The outdoor hard court surface definitely favors Roddick, who won 27 of 28 summer hard court matches during the summer of 2003. Entering the 2004 Olympic Games, Roddick won the singles title in Indianapolis, reached the singles final in Toronto and the semifinals in Cincinnati.
Roddick's personal coach is Brad Gilbert, a member of the 1988 U.S. Olympic Tennis Team and a bronze medal winner in men's singles. Gilbert is with Roddick in Athens.
SECOND TIME AROUND THE RINGS - Vince Spadea is making his second appearance on the U.S. Olympic tennis team this year in Athens - making the 30-year-old only the second American men's player to represent the United States in two Olympic Games. Spadea, also an Olympian in 2000, joins Michael Chang, an Olympian in 1992 and 2000, as only American men to play in two Olympic Games. Both Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi had the opportunity to also play in two Olympic Games, but had their second opportunities to play disrupted by injury - Sampras pulled out of the 1996 Olympic Games with an Achilles tendon injury, while Agassi withdrew from the 2000 Olympic Games when his mother and sister were diagnosed with breast cancer.
LIKE FATHER, LIKE COUSIN - Taylor Dent enters the Olympic Games with one of the most accomplished family sports pedigrees among all athletes - competing in the same Olympic Games as his cousin U.S. beach volleyball star Misty May. Dent's father, Phil, was one of Australia's tennis greats in the 1970s, reaching the Australian Open singles final in 1974, losing to Jimmy Connors. He also was a French Open semifinalist in 1977 and a Wimbledon quarterfinalist in 1977. In 1976, he and Billie Jean King won the mixed doubles title at the US Open. While tennis was not an Olympic sport when Phil competed, he did represent Australia for eight years as a member of the Davis Cup team, helping the Aussies win the 1977 Davis Cup title. Dent's mother, Betty Ann Stuart, was also an accomplished player having reached the round of 16 at Wimbledon and reaching the women's doubles final at the US Open in 1977 with Renee Richards. Taylor's half-brother, Brett Hansen-Dent, was also an NCAA singles finalist for USC and played briefly on the professional tour.
May is a member of the U.S. Beach Volleyball Team, after having represented the U.S. in that competition at the Sydney Games. May's father Butch (Taylor's uncle) was a member of the 1968 U.S. Olympic volleyball team, who was a teammate of 1996 Olympic gold medallist Lindsay Davenport's father Wink.
Dent's first ATP singles win in 2002 at Newport, R.I., site of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, was coincidentally historic as it put Taylor and his father Phil, into the tennis history books as the only father-son combination to win ATP singles titles in their careers.
BROTHERS IN ARMS - Identical twins Bob and Mike Bryan become the second set of brothers to represent the United States in Olympic tennis joining Arthur and Joseph Wear - the great, great uncles of President George W. Bush - who participated and won bronze medals at the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis, Mo. The Wears, however, did not compete with each other - Joseph partnered Allen West, while Arthur paired with Clarence Gamble.
The Bryans have enjoyed success at nearly every level of tennis in their careers, with the Olympic Games their final hurdle. As junior players, Bob and Mike combined to win well over 100 junior doubles championships. In 1996, they became the first doubles team in 50 years to win the prestigious USTA Boys' 18 Doubles Championships in Kalamazoo, Mich., while also winning the junior doubles title at the US Open. In college, they played two years for Stanford University, where in 1998 they won the NCAA doubles title. (Bob won the NCAA triple crown, claiming the singles title and being part of the NCAA championship winning team). The brothers' NCAA doubles crown was the first won by brothers since Robert and Tom Falkenburg won the 1946 doubles title for USC. One year after turning professional, the Bryans represented the United States for the first time at the Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada, earning a bronze medal in men's doubles. In 2001, the Bryans won their first career ATP doubles title in Memphis and went on to win 10 more ATP doubles titles entering the 2003 French Open Championships in 2003. At the famed Roland Garros venue, the Bryans made tennis history, winning their first Grand Slam men's doubles crown and becoming the winningest all-brother doubles team in the Open era with their 11th doubles crown - one better than another set of identical twins Tim and Tom Gullikson. After reaching their second career Grand Slam doubles title at the 2003 US Open, the Bryans were named to the U.S. Davis Cup team for the first time in their careers, becoming the first set of brothers to play on the same Davis Cup team in 100 years - George and Robert Wrenn being the only other set of brothers to turn the trick back in 1903. Unlike the Wrenns, the Bryan twins were victorious in Cup play, winning a crucial match against Karol Beck and Dominik Hrbaty to help the United States defeat Slokavia 3-2 in the Davis Cup World Group Playoff Round in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Mother, Kathy (nee Blake) was a former player on the women's circuit, who reached the doubles semifinals at Wimbledon. Father, Wayne is a lawyer, musician and tennis instructor who is very involved with the ATP Tour's Smash Tennis Program. Wayne went to high school with Carl Wilson - the youngest of the Beach Boys. The Bryans graduated from Rio Mesa H.S. in Oxnard in 1996 and, like most twins, played many tricks on teachers with one brother attending class on before of the other. The Bryans play in a rock band led by their father Wayne. Bob plays the keyboards while Mike plays the drums. The band has played at several special events on the tennis tour and plan to record music professionally. The Bryans are also spokespeople for the USTA's Junior Team Tennis program.
MARDY FISH - A GREAT CATCH - Mardy Fish's tennis abilities have been a subject in the media since the age of two. It was at that age when young Mardy was the subject of a local newscast on WCCO in Minneapolis, Minn., for being the "best two-year-old tennis player in the world" as young Mardy was able to hit the ball over the net from the baseline - a rare feat for any two-year-old.
Since that report in 1984, Fish has steadily progressed into become one of America's top tennis talents. After a successful junior career in which he was the best-finishing American at the 1999 French Open and Wimbledon junior championships, Fish turned professional on Sept. 9, 1999 (9/9/99). Fish's first breakthrough came when he was named to the 2002 U.S. Davis Cup team that reached the semifinals.
Perhaps Fish's grandest effort came in the Davis Cup World Group Playoff in Bratislava, Slovakia, where Fish saved the U.S. team from almost certain defeat. With the United States trailing Slovakia 0-1 in the best-of-five match series, Fish came back from losing the first set, his opponent, Karol Kucera, serving for both the second and third sets, and a 30-minute "blackout" in the arena with Fish serving at a tenuous situation at 5-5, deuce in the second set. Fish won the "must-win" match in four courageous sets, saving the U.S. Davis Cup team from the almost insurmountable 0-2 deficit in a match that it eventually won by a 3-2 margin.
Fish grew up in Edina, Minn., before moving to Vero Beach, Fla., but remains an enthusiastic Twins and Vikings fan. His father, Tom, is a teaching professional. His mother, Sally, and younger sister, Meredith, are two of Mardy's biggest fans. Mardy is a huge fan of country music and is friends with country music stars Kenny Chesney and Trace Atkins. Fish's best friend, Josh Owen, is an up-and-coming country singer who is considering having Mardy perform on a few of his newly-written songs.
"ANCIENT" OLYMPIAN - With an ongoing professional tennis career that began in 1973 that includes a record 167 singles titles, 174 doubles titles, 58 Grand Slam tournament titles, what could missing on the tennis resume of Martina Navratilova?
"I've never played an Olympics and that's a big carrot," the 47-year-old Navratilova said last September as she announced that 2004 would be her last season playing competitive tennis.
At the 2004 Olympic Games, Navratilova will become the oldest player ever to compete in the modern era of the Olympic Games. The Los Angeles Times recently headlined a feature story on Navratilova using the headline "Ancient Olympian." Navratilova is the third-oldest member of the 2004 U.S. Olympic team here in Athens.
OLDEST MEMBERS OF 2004 U.S. OLYMPIC TEAM
Libby Callaghan, U.S. Shooting 52 years, 6 months
Janet Dykman, U.S. Archery 50 years, 7 months
Debbie McDonald, U.S. Equestrian 49 years, 11 months (turns 50 on August 27)
Martina Navratilova, U.S. Tennis 47 years, 10 months
Navratilova continued her assault on tennis history in 2003, winning the mixed doubles titles at the Australian Open and Wimbledon to become the oldest player in the history of the sport to win a Grand Slam tournament title. Her mixed doubles victory at Wimbledon was Navratilova's 20th title at the All-England Club, tying the all-time record set by her friend Billie Jean King. At the 2003 US Open, Navratilova, and her 19-year-old partner Svetlana Kuznetsova, reached the women's doubles final before falling to Virginia Ruano-Pascal and Paola Suarez.
In 2004, Navratilova returned to the singles court for the first time in 10 years in an attempt to sharpen her doubles game for Athens. After losing in the first round of the French Championships to Gisela Dulko, Navratilova became the oldest women since 1922 to win a singles match at Wimbledon when she defeated Catalina Castano of Colombia in the first round of Wimbledon, only to lose, again, to Dulko in the second round.
After losing in the women's semifinals of the 1975 US Open to Chris Evert, an 18-year-old Navratilova of Czechoslovakia appeared at the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service office in New York and asked for political asylum. The future nine-time Wimbledon champion would not see her family or homeland until an emotional trip to Prague in 1986 as a member of the U.S. Federation Cup team. She became a U.S. citizen on July 21, 1981.
Navratilova declined an invitation to play on the 1988 U.S. Olympic team in Seoul, the first year that tennis was welcomed back to the Olympics as a full medal sport and the first year that professionals were allowed to compete in the Olympics. In declining her invitation, Navratilova said she felt that the Olympics should be strictly an amateur event. She did not qualify for the Olympic team in 1992 due to her non-participation on the U.S. Federation Cup team. She was not an active player during the 1996 Olympics, having retired from play after the 1994 season, only to return to tennis in 2000.
CHANDA'S CHANCE - Eight years after the bitter disappointment of withdrawing from the 1996 Olympic Games with a wrist injury, Chanda Rubin will finally get a "second chance" this year in Athens. After breaking into the top 10 world rankings in 1996 and earning a spot on the U.S. Olympic team, Rubin was forced to withdraw from the tennis competition following the Opening Ceremonies in 1996. She did not qualify for the 2000 team, but received the fourth and final spot in singles for the 2004 team.
OTHER U.S. OLYMPIC TENNIS FACTS
The United States has won all Olympic gold medal opportunities in women's tennis during the last three Olympic Games. Since 1988, the United States has won all gold medal opportunities in women's tennis with the exception of one. (.875 winning pct. in winning gold medals since 1988). The lone gold medal won by a non-American since 1988 was at the 1988 Olympic women's singles competition, when Steffi Graf of West Germany won gold over Gabriela Sabatini of Argentina.
The 2004 Games marks the 12th time that tennis has been a full medal sport at the Olympics (Olympic tennis years were 1896-1924 and 1988 - 2004).
The United States has won more Olympic medals in men's and women's tennis than any other nation since tennis was re-instated as an Olympic sport in 1988. The United States medal total (14) is more than double all other medal-winning nations except one (Spain with 8 medals).
The United States has won more than four times as many Olympic gold medals in men's and women's tennis than any other nation since tennis was reinstated as an Olympic sport in 1988. (USA - 9 gold medals, Germany/West Germany - 2)
U.S. OLYMPIC MEDALISTS IN TENNIS
1900 Spalding de Garmendia (silver medal - men's doubles)*
Marion Jones (bronze medal - women's singles)
Marion Jones (bronze medal - women's doubles)*
1904 Beals Wright (gold medal - men's singles)
Beals Wright and Edgar Leonard (gold medal - men's doubles)
Robert LeRoy (silver medal - men's singles)
Robert LeRoy and Alphonso Bell (silver medal - men's doubles)
Alphonso Bell (bronze medal - men's singles)
Edgar Leonard (bronze medal - men's singles)
Joseph Wear and Allen West (bronze medal - men's doubles)
Clarence Gamble and Arthur Wear (bronze medal - men's doubles)
1924 Vincent Richards (gold medal - men's singles)
Vincent Richards and Frank Hunter (gold medal - men's doubles)
Helen Wills (gold medal - women's singles)
Helen Wills and Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman (gold medal - women's doubles)
Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman and R. Norris Williams (gold medal - mixed doubles)
Marion Jessup and Vincent Richards (silver medal - mixed doubles)
1988 Ken Flach and Robert Seguso (gold medal - men's doubles)
Pam Shriver and Zina Garrison (gold medal - women's doubles)
Tim Mayotte (silver medal - men's singles)
Brad Gilbert (bronze medal - men's singles)
Zina Garrison (bronze medal - women's singles)
1992 Jennifer Capriati (gold medal - women's singles)
Mary Joe Fernandez and Gigi Fernandez (gold medal - women's doubles)
Mary Joe Fernandez (bronze medal - women's singles)
1996 Andre Agassi (gold medal - men's singles)
Lindsay Davenport (gold medal - women's singles)
Mary Joe Fernandez and Gigi Fernandez (gold medal - women's doubles)
2000 Venus Williams (gold medal - women's singles)
Venus Williams and Serena Williams (gold medal - women's doubles)
Monica Seles (bronze medal - women's singles)
* won with an international partner
ALL-TIME U.S. OLYMPIC TENNIS MEDAL HOLDERS
Men
1. Vincent Richards 3 medals (2 gold, 1 silver)
2. Beals Wright 2 medals (2 gold)
Edgar Leonard 2 medals (1 gold, 1 bronze)
Robert LeRoy 2 medals (2 silver)
Alphonso Bell 2 medals (1 silver, 1 bronze)
6. Andre Agassi 1 medal (1 gold)
Frank Hunter 1 medal (1 gold)
R. Norris Williams 1 medal (1 gold)
Ken Flach 1 medal (1 gold)
Robert Seguso 1 medal (1 gold)
Tim Mayotte 1 medal (1 silver)
Spalding de Garmendia 1 medal (1 silver)
Joseph Wear 1 medal (1 bronze)
Allen West 1 medal (1 bronze)
Clarence Gamble 1 medal (1 bronze)
Arthur Wear 1 medal (1 bronze)
Brad Gilbert 1 medal (1 bronze)
Women
1. Mary Joe Fernandez 3 medals (2 gold, 1 bronze)
2. Helen Wills 2 medals (2 gold)
Venus Williams 2 medals (2 gold)
Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman 2 medals (2 gold)
Gigi Fernandez 2 medals (2 gold)
Zina Garrison 2 medals (1 gold, 1 bronze)
Marion Jones 2 medals (2 bronze)
7. Lindsay Davenport 1 medal (1 gold)
Jennifer Capriati 1 medal (1 gold)
Pam Shriver 1 medal (1 gold)
Serena Williams 1 medal (1 gold)
Marion Jessup 1 medal (1 silver)
Monica Seles 1 medal (1 bronze)
U.S. OLYMPIC TENNIS ROSTERS SINCE 1984
After a 64-year hiatus, tennis returned to the Olympics in 1988 and, at the same time, became the first Olympic sport to welcome professionals.
# 1984 1988 1992 1996
Jimmy Arias Tim Mayotte Pete Sampras * Pete Sampras
Eric Amend Brad Gilbert Michael Chang Andre Agassi
Kelly Jones Ken Flach Jim Courier Mal Washington
Derrick Rostagno Robert Seguso M.J. Fernandez Richey Reneberg
Kathy Horvath Pam Shriver Gigi Fernandez Gigi Fernandez
Gretchen Rush Zina Garrison Zina Garrison Monica Seles
Andrea Leand Chris Evert Jennifer Capriati Lindsay Davenport
Andrea Jaeger * Chanda Rubin
Mary Joe Fernandez
# - Exhibition Event
2000 2004
Venus Williams Venus Williams
Serena Williams * Serena Williams
Lindsay Davenport * Jennifer Capriati
Monica Seles Chanda Rubin
* Andre Agassi Martina Navratilova
Todd Martin Lisa Raymond
Michael Chang Andy Roddick
Jeff Tarango Mardy Fish
Vince Spadea Vince Spadea
Alex O'Brien Taylor Dent
Jared Palmer Bob Bryan
Mike Bryan
* Withdrew due to injury. |
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