It has been confirmed that French Open champion Carlos Alcaraz will partner with former world number one Rafael Nadal in the upcoming Olympics.
Alcaraz defeated Alexandr Zverev in a five-set thriller to claim the French Open Title.
Nadal will return to France as the Olympic will be held in Paris after he was eliminated in the first round of the French Open.
He said after his defeat in the French Open, “My main goal now is to play Olympics,” Nadal said after losing in the first round of the French Open on May 27. “That’s going to be here. So I need to prepare myself the proper way to try to arrive here healthy and well prepared, and then let’s see.”
Nadal and Alcaraz will play in both singles and doubles at the Games. The tennis competition will be held at Roland Garros, where Nadal is a 14-time Grand Slam champion and Alcaraz just won the most recent French Open on Sunday.
Alcaraz will be making his Olympic debut, while Nadal has a singles gold medal from the 2008 Beijing Games and a 2016 gold in doubles, when he played with Marc Lopez.
Spain also selected Pablo Carreno Busta, Alejandro Davidovich and Marcel Granollers (doubles) for the men’s competition and Sara Sorribes Tormo and Cristina Bucsa for the women.
