Bianca Andreescu will continue her return to the Paris Games as part of a talented Canadian tennis team seeking its first Olympic medal in 24 years.

The 2019 US Open champion from Mississauga, Ont., was named to the Canadian Olympic team along with Félix Auger-Aliassime of Montreal, Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., Gabriela Dabrowski of Ottawa and Milos Raonic of Thornhill, Ont.

Andreescu, 23, will make her Olympic debut after injuries forced her to withdraw from the Tokyo Games.

He returned to action earlier this year after a nearly 10-month hiatus due to a back injury and reached the final of the Libema Open on grass.

“Playing at the Olympic Games has been a big goal for me over the last few months as I have been working to recover from an injury,” Andreescu said in a Tennis Canada press release. “It is always an honour to represent my country and I look forward to doing so again alongside Canada’s incredible team of athletes on the world’s biggest stage in Paris.”

“It's a dream come true and I can't wait to soak up the Olympic atmosphere and give it my all.”

Canada will bring a host of international successes to Paris. Auger-Aliassime led Canada to win the Davis Cup in 2022, while Fernandez and Dabrowski were part of the Canadian team that won the Billie Jean King Cup in 2023.

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Fernández, 21, is competing in the Olympic Games for the second time after qualifying for the second round of the Tokyo Games. She is the highest-ranked individual player in Canada, ranked 30th. She was a finalist at the US Open in 2021 shortly after competing in the Tokyo Olympics.

Fernández will also team up with Dabrowski in women's doubles. Dabrowski is ranked fourth in the world in women's doubles and teamed with New Zealand's Erin Routliffe to win the 2023 US Open title.

Dabrowski won all three of her matches in the BJK Cup final, including teaming with Fernandez to win a deciding doubles match against Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic in the semifinals.

Auger-Aliassime and Raonic will play in men's singles and team up in doubles.

Auger-Aliassime, ranked 17th in the ATP singles rankings, will be making his second Olympic appearance after competing in the men's singles and mixed doubles at Tokyo 2020.

Raonic, the team's 33-year-old veteran, is competing in his second Olympics and first since London 2012, where he lost in a marathon second-round match to Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

Canada's only Olympic tennis medal came at the 2000 Sydney Games, when Daniel Nestor and Sebastian Lareau upset Australian favorites Mark Woodforde and Todd Woodbridge to win gold in the men's doubles.

Tennis will take place from July 27 to August. 4 on the clay court of Roland Garros, home of Roland-Garros.

Judoka Elna aims for the Olympic podium

Also on Thursday, current Pan American gold medalist Shady Elnahas and the Deguchi sisters, Christa and Kelly, were among the judokas announced for Paris.

Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard, François Gauthier-Drapeau, Arthur Margelidon and Ana Laura Portuondo Isasi are the others.

Elnahas will try to improve on the fifth place he achieved in Tokyo three years ago.

After his fifth Pan American title last fall, he won silver earlier this year at the world championships in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, where he had to withdraw from the final due to injury..

“I'm particularly excited about these Games because in Tokyo we were really in a bubble,” Elnahas, third in the world rankings in the men's 100 kilograms division, said in a statement released by Judo Canada. “In Paris, I really want to live fully and enjoy every moment. »

“I also really want to give my best and give everything to win a medal this time.”

The Deguchis will participate in the Summer Games for the first time.

Christa Deguchi, the top-ranked woman in the 57 kg division, is Canada's most decorated female judoka to date.

A double world champion, she won silver this year and has won 11 Grand Slam events since 2018.

The 28-year-old, who lives and trains in Japan, is excited to compete in Paris after missing qualifying for Tokyo when eventual Olympic bronze medalist Jessica Klimkait earned Canada's only spot in her category.

Kelly Deguchi is also training in Japan and will compete in the women's 52kg category.

He is a three-time medalist at the Pan American-Oceania Championships. Last year, she won gold at the European Open, her first international title.

In 2022, Christa won gold at the Commonwealth Games, while Kelly took silver in Birmingham, England.

Canada has won seven Olympic medals in judo since joining the Olympic program in 1964. Women's events were added in Barcelona in 1992.

The judo competition in Paris will be held from July 27 to August 3 at the Environment Champs-de-Mars.