Western Australian tennis star Casey Dellacqua has this week been selected by the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) for the 2012 London Olympic Games.

Dellacqua will partner 2011 US Open Champion Sam Stosur in the women’s doubles for Australia, with the pair forming part of the six-member Australian tennis team at London’s All England Club.

London will represent a second Olympic campaign for Dellacqua, who also competed in the women’s singles and doubles at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

Doubles is a format in which Dellacqua excels, having won the 2011 French Open Mixed Doubles Grand Slam title alongside American Scott Lipsky.

Dellacqua’s selection has taken WA’s numbers for the London Games to 39 athletes.