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 grew to become the primary American lady to win Roland-Garros since Serena Williams in 2015?
Gauff says it shouldn’t be an issue. She’s all the time been a participant who has no drawback 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 bought again from New York, I used to be just about extra targeted on right here, simply occupied with what I have to do, the place I really feel the areas of my recreation I want 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 have a good time her achievements after the season.
“I feel for me I would somewhat simply keep within the second and take into consideration this and type of neglect the French,” she stated. “I nonetheless need to do rather well right here. I really feel fairly assured on the court docket. Yeah, for me it was essential simply to neglect, which is straightforward for me as a result of I am all the time searching for the following factor.
“I feel I need to do away with it [from my memory]. When November comes, I am going to revisit.”
Gauff says she has spent many of the final two weeks re-acclimating her recreation to the grass, which suggests studying to hit extra slice, and hitting a flatter ball. There has additionally been further emphasis on the motion and on the serve.
“It is clearly so much completely different than clay,” the 21-year-old stated. “[I am just trying to] preserve the ball decrease. Clearly clay, it is enjoying with numerous top, heaviness, and that sort of recreation. [On grass] I really feel you’ll want to play somewhat bit decrease and somewhat bit extra aggressive than the clay season, which is a bit troublesome simply since you spend I do not know nonetheless many lengthy weeks the clay is enjoying a sure sort of approach.
“Then we come on grass, and we have now 13 days to utterly – not utterly change since you nonetheless have the core of your recreation – however simply change somewhat bit the way you play.”
