As the 18-year-old advances at the Australian Open, Coco Gauff is the best in women's tennis today at incorporating attack-minded tactics.
She has steadied a shaky second serve, shored up her forehand and bolted to a 7-0 record this season in winning her third career singles title and advancing to the Australian Open’s third round with her latest victory — a straight-sets defeat of 2021 U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu.
It should serve Gauff in good stead as the Australian Open unfolds in Melbourne, where she is the youngest seeded player at No. 7.“I’ve never been scared coming to the net,” Gauff said to reporters after her first-round victory. “… I think I have good reactions coming to the net, so I kind of just allow myself to trust myself. And also accept that, you know, they’re going to hit some good passing shots. As long as you’re winning a majority of the points, then there’s nothing to be afraid of.
“Now, do they get up to the short balls and eat them for breakfast?” Macci asks. “In my opinion, that’s a mind-set. And in my opinion, no one does that better than Coco. She uses her speed, her athleticism to beat the ball to the spot. She knows she has to do it, and she’s not afraid to volley.” While strokes and footwork can be fine-tuned with repetition, a genuine thirst for attacking is as much a reflection of temperament as a learned tactic: a mental aspect of a very mental game, as elemental as a fight-or-flight response.
Macci, 68, has a trove of anecdotes from decades working with world-class juniors at his Boca Raton, Fla., academy.
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