By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Friday Might 2, 2025
With regards to rankings, just one quantity issues to Coco Gauff: No.1.
After her 6-1, 6-1 victory over Iga Swiatek on Thursday in Madrid, Gauff advised reporters that she’s not involved in any respect about what rating she’s going to maintain after the Madrid remaining.
“I’ll be sincere, it isn’t necessary to me, truthfully,” Gauff mentioned, including: “The one quantity that might imply so much to me is 1 at this level. Something wherever else is simply, it is only a quantity. Oviously it is a reward for the work that I am doing and the consistency that I am exhibiting, however it’s not one thing that I take into consideration or have a objective to achieve.”
For those who do care about such issues, Gauff can go Swiatek within the rankings if she defeats Aryna Sabalenka in Saturday’s Madrid remaining.
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Gauff has taken the facility again from Swiatek of late. After dropping the primary seven matches of their rivalry, she has now gained 4 of the final eight, and three in a row.
“I can not consider we performed one another this many occasions,” she mentioned. “I am 21 and I believe she’s 23. We’re so younger, and we each not less than have, I might say, 10 extra years on this sport.
“So I would not be shocked if we… find yourself having the file for many occasions enjoying in opposition to one another ever in tennis historical past truthfully at this level.”
Prior to now the American was a sufferer of her personal nerves and expectations when dealing with Swiatek. As of late she says she’s not overthinking issues.
“I believe up to now I nearly dialed in an excessive amount of the place I simply put a lot strain on myself,” she mentioned. “Now I simply really feel like, no matter. It is like, if I win, nice, I get one other win on the board of that head-to-head, and if I lose it is simply one other loss.
“I simply attempt to make it possible for after I play her, if I lose, it is as a result of she gained the match and never as a result of I misplaced the match myself.”
