NEW YORK—Coco Gauff used the phrase “when I was younger” after her second-round victory at the US Open on Wednesday while discussing the perspective she's gained at the ripe old age of 19. “I used to think,” she explained, “every match was life or death.” And now? Well, the American said after beating 16-year-old…
Gauff is not getting much opportunity for that sort of learning lately — she’s won 13 of her past 14 contests, including claiming the two biggest titles of her still-nascent career — and yet her game has been showing a lot of growth lately.
“Mirra, she’s going to be a great player,” continued Gauff, whose breakthrough came at age 15 when she qualified at Wimbledon and got to the fourth round. “With the more matches she has, the more experience she has.”The two teenagers faced each other about three months ago at the French Open in what was a much tighter affair, going three sets before Gauff — the runner-up to Swiatek at Roland Garros in 2022 — pulled out the win.
Those are two improvements that have come since a first-round loss at Wimbledon in July, tweaks that arrived while working with new coaches Pere Riba and Brad Gilbert, who could be heard urging Gauff to make things more physical from his front-row seat in a player guest box. After that one poor game to begin things against Andreeva, Gauff quickly snapped to it, looking far more formidable than she did during a that lasted 2 hours, 51 minutes in the first round Monday night. This one lasted less than half as long, time-wise.
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