If extravagance was the aim, Coco Gauff can give herself a passing grade as she rolled into her second final of the year Saturday with a 6-3, 6-3 win over defending champion Liudmila Samsonova.
At 19, Coco Gauff is still in the building phase of her tennis career, with two main goals consuming her focus. She wants to establish a more consistent game style and work on winning every match “the right way,” which is to say, not stumbling into victories with her elite natural gifts.“I feel like I have the foundation in my game. Now it’s building around that. It’s building the house, essentially,” Gauff said this week at the DC Open.
She dropped all four of her finals appearances in 2022 and hasn’t won a tournament since claiming her inaugural WTA title in 2019 in Morocco. In her news conference after Friday’s win, Gauff was talking tennis, joking about her new hairstyle and making a self-deprecating jab at her much-discussed forehand.
She began working with Gilbert this week and Gauff said he provided the game plans against Bencic and Samsonova. Part of his edict had nothing to do with groundstrokes or footwork — he told Gauff to have more fun on the court.“Even with Brad, he’s like, ‘I want you to smile at the box sometimes and talk to us,’ ” Gauff said, explaining she would often tamp down her bubbly personality in part because she felt it wouldn’t suit tennis’s stuffy reputation.
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