Coco Gauff

PARIS — It is easy to be in a rush when you reach the fourth round of Wimbledon at age 15, beating one of your idols, Venus Williams, in your opening match.

She and her partner, Jessica Pegula, are into the semifinals of the women’s doubles and will face their American compatriots Taylor Townsend and Madison Keys on Friday. I’m glad she is aware and bringing the attention and empathy to it. The first thing my dad said to me after I got off court: ‘I’m proud of you, and I love what you wrote on the camera.’” “My dad told me I could change the world with my racket,” she said. “She’s always had work to turn in, and it’s always in the back of your mind. But Gauff’s family also made it clear to her from an early age that she could have a reach far beyond the court. He added: “He’s able to communicate to her how it makes him feel on the other side of the net when she does something. “That release when you finish high school or college is real,” he said. “She’s definitely the favorite going into the match on paper,” Gauff said. On Saturday, she will play in her first Grand Slam singles final, facing the No. 1 seed, Iga Swiatek, at the French Open for the title and the Coupe Suzanne Lenglen. PARIS — It is easy to be in a rush when you reach the fourth round of Wimbledon at age 15, beating one of your idols, Venus Williams, in your opening match. That score and breakneck pace have been typical for Swiatek, the powerful and increasingly imposing Polish star.

Coco Gauff reaching the French Open final at age 18 is the latest in a string of remarkable teenage feats in her young career.

She is the youngest Grand Slam finalist since Maria Sharapova won 2004 Wimbledon at 17. Gauff, now 17, becomes the youngest player to reach a Grand Slam quarterfinal since Nicole Vaidisova in 2006. Gauff became the youngest junior Grand Slam champion since Hingis in 1994.

The American's semifinal win over Martina Trevisan follows two mass shootings in the US in the past 10 days, including one that left 19 children and two ...

"I just think it's crazy. "And I think, going in, I have nothing to lose and she's definitely the favourite going into the match on paper. "That was just a message [I wrote on the camera] for people at home to watch, and for people who are all around the world to watch.

The formidable 18-year-old American player beat the Italian Martina Trevisan at the French Open in just two sets, before using her platform to protest gun ...

She’s also matched her power on the court with a devotion to using her platform to advocate for political causes. Today’s match should serve as a major point of pride in Gauff’s short but thrilling career thus far. Yet once the second set rolled around, and Gauff masterfully broke Trevisan’s serve in a tense 14-minute game midway through, the American player emerged triumphant.

The youngest American grand slam finalist since Serena Williams is one win away from a breakthrough major championship that's been years in the making.

The first thing my dad said to me after I got off court, I’m proud of you and I love what you wrote on the camera.” On Twitter, former First Lady Michelle Obama congratulated Gauff on making it to the final and said she’d be rooting for her all the way. In tennis, a sport where players are perhaps more likely to publicly eschew the complexities of social consciousness for platitudes on hard work, Gauff is clear on her choice: “I’m a human first.” It’s not the first time Gauff has leveraged her platform in the service of social issues. But for me, it was an eye opener that my parents really just care about the character of my personality and not so much on tennis results.” The kind of work that goes into being a professional tennis player is only recently the stuff of Netflix documentaries; the level of tedium inherent to the endless rotation of practice, and play, and training, and physio, the kind needed to avoid the one-off anomaly of an early-career success simply cannot be avoided.

Moments after Coco Gauff defeated Italian Martina Trevisan 6-3, 6-1 to advance to the women's singles final at the 2022 French Open, the 18-year-old ...

Coco Gauff with a message for peace after advancing to the French Open final.pic.twitter.com/NqA4FEpzS2 Gauff is also slated to compete in the semifinals of the women’s doubles’ tournament tomorrow with partner Jessica Pegula. “It’s a problem that’s been going on for years in the U.S. and I wanted to bring that attention to it,” Gauff told Jon Wertheim of Tennis Channel.

American teenager Coco Gauff has the chance to win two French Open trophies this weekend after reaching the women's doubles final as well as the singles. Gauff, who plays Iga Swiatek in the singles final on Saturday, advanced to the doubles showpiece ...

Last year, Czech Barbora Krejcikova became the first woman since 2000 - and the seventh ever - to win the singles and doubles titles at Roland Garros. Gauff, 18, is in her first Grand Slam singles final but was runner-up in the US Open doubles final in 2021. Gauff, who plays Iga Swiatek in the singles final on Saturday, advanced to the doubles showpiece with compatriot Jessica Pegula on Friday.

American teen reaches the final in singles and doubles and hopes to walk away with two trophies this weekend.

It's a final between the world's No. 1, Iga Swiatek, and a rising American star, Coco Gauff -- a best final tennis fans could have hoped for.

Much has been made of the work she and her sports psychologist, Daria Abramowicz, have done off the court, keeping her balanced and putting everything in perspective, but Swiatek's innate ability to find a solution on court when she's in trouble is equally impressive. From the start, she has looked relaxed, determined and absolutely in her element. Much will depend on how much control she can get from the baseline. Instead, she has grasped the mantle of No. 1 and seems to actively embrace it. The champion in 2020 when she was 19, Swiatek is a far better player now. Quite simply, Swiatek is the best female player on the planet right now.

Coco Gauff has been selective with sponsorship opportunities, but a Grand Slam win at age 18 could bring in millions.

Deals with prestigious brands like Rolex and Microsoft made sense after her 2019 breakout, but there is care being taken not to overcommercialize Gauff at this young age or add to the pressure she acknowledged feeling in a 2020 post for Behind The Racquet. Her focus is on tennis, and her newly beefed-up playing schedule, now that she has turned 18 and is no longer subject to WTA restrictions on how many tournaments young players can enter each year. For starters, sponsor deals in tennis typically feature performance incentives on top of the base guarantees, so Gauff could unlock substantial bonuses by winning her first Grand Slam or rising in the rankings. Off the court, Forbes estimates she is making at least $4 million annually (before taxes and agents’ fees) from sponsors that include New Balance apparel, Head tennis rackets and Barilla pasta. The comparisons to Serena Williams started early for Coco Gauff, who won a national tennis tournament at age 8 and became the world’s No. 1 junior player at 14. But Gauff is already raking in cash, with $3.2 million in career prize money since she turned pro in 2018. Gauff, now 18, will play for the French Open women’s singles title in Saturday’s final against top-ranked Iga Swiatek, a phenom herself at just 21.

Gauff writes her message on the camera after her victory against Martina Trevisan at the French Open. (CNN) US tennis star Coco Gauff has said ...

There is going to be a time when I retire and all this, and I'm still going to be a human. But just in general, I think that I'm a human first. "If I'm interested in this, I wouldn't even consider gun violence politics; I think that's just life in general. Hopefully, it gets into the heads of people in office to hopefully change things." "It's important, just as a person in the world, regardless of tennis player or not. I just think it's crazy, I think I was maybe 14 or 13 when that happened, and still nothing has changed.