Heather Watson says she is concentrated on making an attempt to win a primary Olympic medal in Paris.
The 32-year-old from Guernsey will compete at her fourth Video games for Staff GB, partnering Katie Boulter within the girls’s doubles and Joe Salisbury within the blended doubles.
Watson’s greatest consequence got here within the 2016 Olympics in Rio the place she and Andy Murray reached the quarter-finals of the blended doubles.
“My purpose 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 making an attempt my greatest to get a medal,” Watson informed BBC Radio Guernsey.
She and Boulter will start their girls’s doubles marketing campaign in opposition to 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 obtained a very good likelihood, being within the doubles and the blended doubles,” he added.
“I have been taking part in with Joe within the blended doubles this final 12 months and we’re an ideal crew, so I actually again us and I hope we are able to end this Olympics on much more of a excessive.”
Watson – whose greatest Grand Slam singles look was reaching the fourth spherical at Wimbledon in 2022 – has arguably had her greatest success in doubles.
She gained 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 largest 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 respect moments like this much more.
“I am right here to win. I might do something to get a medal, so I am trying ahead to getting out on that courtroom and giving it my very best effort.”