A nine-member Australian tennis team, comprising six men and three women, will compete at the Paris 2024 Olympics, the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) announced on Wednesday.

Australia’s top-ranked men’s singles player Alex de Minaur, currently ninth in the ATP Rankings, will make his Olympic debut after missing out on the Tokyo 2020 due to COVID-19.

World No. 1 men’s doubles player Matthew Ebden, one half of the reigning Australian Open doubles champions, Alexei Popyrin, Chris O’Connell and Rinky Hijikata will also be appearing at their first Olympic Games.

John Peers, who won the mixed doubles bronze with now-retired Ashleigh Barty at Tokyo 2020, will team up with Ebden in the men’s doubles. Peers will be competing at his third Olympics.

De Minaur and Popyrin will be the second Aussie pair in the men’s doubles.

Meanwhile, Ajla Tomljanovic, Ellen Perez and Daria Saville, all returning for their second Olympics, make up the Australian women’s contingent.

Tomljanovic, ranked 135th, will be the only Australian tennis player in women’s singles while world No. 9 doubles player Ellen Perez will partner Daria Saville in doubles.

Australia’s only five-time tennis Olympian Sam Stosur will lead the women’s team while three-time Olympian Lleyton Hewitt will captain the men’s team in Paris.

Australia could obtain more Paris 2024 quotas when the International Tennis Federation (ITF) releases the final entry lists for the Olympics on or before July 8.

At the Tokyo Olympics three years ago, Australia sent a 10-member team, matching their record tennis team size from Sydney 2000 and Rio 2016. The bronze won by Barty and Peers was Australia’s first Olympic medal in tennis since Alicia Molik’s bronze at Athens 2004.

Tennis made its Olympic debut at Athens 1896. The Australian tennis players have won a total of six Olympic medals – one gold, one silver and four bronze.

The men’s doubles pair of Mark Woodforde and Todd Woodbridge clinched the gold medal at Atlanta 1996 and won silver at the Sydney Olympics four years later.

The tennis events at the Paris 2024 Olympics will be held on the iconic clay courts of the Roland Garros in Paris from July 27 to August 4.

Australian tennis team for Paris 2024 Olympics

Men’s singles: Alex de Minaur, Alexei Popyrin, Chris O’Connell, Rinky Hijikata

Men’s doubles: John Peers/Matthew Ebden, Alex de Minaur/Alexei Popyrin

Women’s singles: Ajla Tomljanovic

Women’s doubles: Ellen Perez/Daria Saville