Alex Michelsen (ATP world no. 30)
At 6ft 4in (1.93m) and 20-years-old, Alex Michelsen is certainly one of the USA’s tennis talents to watch out for. His 2025 Australian Open run not only completed the set of major main draws, but but also saw him reach the fourth round at Melbourne Park.
The Aliso Viejo native was close to qualifying for Paris 2024 but just missed out in the rankings, and even though he believes he didn’t quite deserve a spot there, he’s full of hunger to make his Olympic debut on home turf.
“It would be incredible, it would one of the greatest things that I would get to experience in this life – I thought about it a lot,” Michelsen revealed to Olympics.com. “I really hope I can make the cut. I know all the American guys are going to want to play. It’s in LA, it’s close to my home…I really want to play.”
Michelsen, an avid gamer, grew up on the Olympic video games as much as the Games themselves. “I played a lot of that in the London 2012 Olympics,” he recalls, “I just did everything. I remember watching the London 2012 Games and Fed [Roger Federer] and [Stan] Wawrinka play Nishikori [Kei] and [Soeda Go] in doubles. It was an absolutely sick match.”