Jarry joins a who’s-who of tennis players to receive this national honor at the Games, including Roger Federer, who twice led the Swiss delegation in the parade of nations, in 2004 and 2008. In 2012, Novak Djokovic, Agnieszka Radwanska, Maria Sharapova and Stan Wawrinka were among the tennis players selected, while Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray and Caroline Wozniacki were three notable names to be chosen in 2016.
At the last Olympics in Tokyo three years ago (delayed from 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic), four players were co-flag bearers, in the first year that the Olympics offered the position of honor to one male and one female athlete: Lu Yen-hsun for Chinese Taipei, Veronica Cepede Royg for Paraguay, Petra Kvitova for the Czech Republic, and Jelena Ostapenko for Latvia.
The tennis event begins at Roland Garros on July 27, and Jarry will be hoping that his return to the terre battue will go better than his Grand Slam effort. After reaching his first ATP Masters 1000 final in Rome, Jarry lost in the first round at Roland Garros to Corentin Moutet.
