By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Saturday June 28, 2025
How will Coco Gauff course of enjoying Wimbledon so quickly after she simply climbed a significant hurdle in Paris, the place she turned the primary American girl to win Roland-Garros since Serena Williams in 2015?
Gauff says it shouldn’t be an issue. She’s at all times been a participant who has no downside letting the previous go.
“I am very a lot somebody who can look forward in a short time,” she advised the media at Wimbledon on Saturday. “As soon as I obtained again from New York, I used to be just about extra centered on right here, simply desirous about what I must do, the place I really feel the areas of my sport I would like to enhance on.”
Gauff, a two-time champion who enters Wimbledon because the No.2 seed, has by no means reached a quarterfinal on the All England Membership. She’s hoping to alter that this yr.
She says she’ll have loads of time to rejoice her achievements after the season.
“I believe for me I might moderately simply keep within the second and take into consideration this and sort of neglect the French,” she mentioned. “I nonetheless wish to do rather well right here. I really feel fairly assured on the court docket. Yeah, for me it was vital simply to neglect, which is simple for me as a result of I am at all times on the lookout for the subsequent factor.
“I believe I wish to eliminate it [from my memory]. When November comes, I will revisit.”
Gauff says she has spent many of the final two weeks re-acclimating her sport to the grass, which suggests studying to hit extra slice, and hitting a flatter ball. There has additionally been additional emphasis on the motion and on the serve.
“It is clearly quite a bit completely different than clay,” the 21-year-old mentioned. “[I am just trying to] hold the ball decrease. Clearly clay, it is enjoying with a variety of top, heaviness, and that kind of sport. [On grass] I really feel it’s essential play just a little bit decrease and just a little bit extra aggressive than the clay season, which is a bit troublesome simply since you spend I do not know nevertheless many lengthy weeks the clay is enjoying a sure kind of method.
“Then we come on grass, and now we have 13 days to fully – not fully change since you nonetheless have the core of your sport – however simply change just a little bit the way you play.”
