WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Delray Beach native Coco Gauff has become the first U.S. tennis player to qualify for the Paris Olympics.
According to NBC Sports, Gauff has accumulated enough points to guarantee a spot among the top four U.S. women's singles players at the end of the qualifying window.
No more than four singles players per gender from each nation can qualify.
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Gauff, who recently turned 20, confirmed to WPTV on Tuesday that she's Paris-bound.
"I'm definitely playing," she said during an appearance at Pompey Park in Delray Beach. "I've said that before, that if I was going to qualify, I'm going to play, and it's been pretty set in stone that I was going to qualify for a bit, but yesterday, I guess, I found out that it was mathematically impossible for me to not qualify."
Gauff is the reigning U.S. Open champion. She is currently the world's third-ranked women's singles player.
The qualifying window ends June 30.