Heather Watson says she is targeted on attempting to win a primary Olympic medal in Paris.
The 32-year-old from Guernsey will compete at her fourth Video games for Workforce GB, partnering Katie Boulter within the girls’s doubles and Joe Salisbury within the blended doubles.
Watson’s finest consequence got here within the 2016 Olympics in Rio the place she and Andy Murray reached the quarter-finals of the blended doubles.
“My intention is to only take pleasure in each second and embrace the overall expertise, however this Video games I actually really feel I’ll deal with attempting my finest to get a medal,” Watson advised BBC Radio Guernsey.
She and Boulter will start their girls’s doubles marketing campaign towards Germany’s Angelique Kerber and Laura Siegemund, whereas Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski and Felix Auger are Watson and Salisbury’s opponents of their blended doubles opener.
“I really feel like I’ve bought a superb likelihood, being within the doubles and the blended doubles,” he added.
“I have been enjoying with Joe within the blended doubles this final 12 months and we’re an excellent workforce, so I actually again us and I hope we are able to end this Olympics on much more of a excessive.”
Watson – whose finest Grand Slam singles look was reaching the fourth spherical at Wimbledon in 2022 – has arguably had her finest success in doubles.
She received the Wimbledon blended doubles title in 2016 with Finland’s Henri Kontinen and the pair once more reached the ultimate 12 months later.
Watson, who’s 141st within the WTA rankings, says specializing in a fourth Olympics has been her objective for a while.
“It was the most important objective for me this final 12 months to make one other Olympic Video games,” she added.
“I am on the again finish of my profession now so I believe I simply recognize moments like this much more.
“I am right here to win. I would do something to get a medal, so I am trying ahead to getting out on that court docket and giving it my best possible effort.”
