By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Tuesday, April 16, 2024 Coco Gauff is aware of all concerning the calls for of multi-tasking on clay courts.
The previous French Open finalist in singles and doubles launches her clay marketing campaign in Stuttgart this week with a twin aim.
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The 2022 Roland Garros runner-up is on a mission to win her first clay-court title since 2021 and make a run at Roland Garros.
“I feel clay and exhausting are positively my favourite surfaces,” Gauff informed the media in Stuttgart at present. “Once more, I can play properly on all of them relying on how I present as much as a match, truthfully.
“However for the clay court docket season this yr, I am actually optimistic. Clearly the aim is to win French Open, however that is each season of any high participant. I imply, your objectives needs to be to attempt to win the large match.”
Reigning US Open champion Gauff owns a 15-4 profession report and 79 p.c profession profitable proportion at Roland Garros—her finest profitable proportion at a Grand Slam.
“However I am not taking a look at French Open proper now. I am targeted on Stuttgart,” Gauff informed the media in Stuttgart. “You already know, I need to win, attempt to win Madrid or Rome or right here, simply because I am unable to bear in mind — the final time I received a clay court docket title was, like, a pair years in the past if I am not mistaken.
“So I type of simply need to get a current clay title beneath my belt. So any of those alongside the following couple weeks could be good.”
Gearing up her recreation for clay, Gauff has reunited with former coach Jean-Cristophe Faurel including him to her workforce headed by coach Brad Gilbert.
“I added Jean-Christophe, I name him J.C., to my workforce. I began with him after I was 14,” Gauff stated. “He was with me with that unbelievable run at Wimbledon. It really wasn’t both of our decisions to cease working collectively. He was having visa points and could not get into the U.S. for, like, a very long time, a pair years.
“So as soon as he received that every one found out and it grew to become an ideal alternative and the timing labored to be again collectively, I knew once we had stopped I at all times needed to return to him when all of that stuff received sorted.
“So the timing labored the place I used to be on the lookout for somebody, and we labored properly collectively. I am actually excited to be again with him. It is good to have somebody on my workforce that is aware of me since I used to be younger and is aware of me properly. So I am actually, actually excited to have him again on the workforce.”
Photograph credit score: Internazionali BNL d’Italia
