By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Friday Could 2, 2025
On the subject of rankings, just one quantity issues to Coco Gauff: No.1.
After her 6-1, 6-1 victory over Iga Swiatek on Thursday in Madrid, Gauff advised reporters that she’s not involved in any respect about what rating she’s going to maintain after the Madrid closing.
“I’ll be sincere, it isn’t necessary to me, truthfully,” Gauff mentioned, including: “The one quantity that might imply quite a bit to me is 1 at this level. Something anyplace else is simply, it is only a quantity. Oviously it is a reward for the work that I am doing and the consistency that I am exhibiting, however it’s not one thing that I take into consideration or have a purpose to succeed in.”
For people who do care about such issues, Gauff can move Swiatek within the rankings if she defeats Aryna Sabalenka in Saturday’s Madrid closing.
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Gauff has taken the ability again from Swiatek of late. After dropping the primary seven matches of their rivalry, she has now received 4 of the final eight, and three in a row.
“I can’t imagine we performed one another this many occasions,” she mentioned. “I am 21 and I believe she’s 23. We’re so younger, and we each at the very least have, I might say, 10 extra years on this recreation.
“So I would not be stunned if we… find yourself having the report for many occasions taking part in in opposition to one another ever in tennis historical past truthfully at this level.”
Previously the American was a sufferer of her personal nerves and expectations when going through Swiatek. Nowadays she says she’s not overthinking issues.
“I believe previously I virtually dialed in an excessive amount of the place I simply put a lot stress on myself,” she mentioned. “Now I simply really feel like, no matter. It is like, if I win, nice, I get one other win on the board of that head-to-head, and if I lose it is simply one other loss.
“I simply attempt to ensure that once I play her, if I lose, it is as a result of she received the match and never as a result of I misplaced the match myself.”
