Coco Gauff says she is unquestionably feeling now that rivals have that further motivation after they face her however underlines that she is just not it negatively however fairly as one thing that may solely make her a greater participant.
After turning into a Grand Slam champion and reaching the world No. 2 rating during the last 11 months, 20-year-old Gauff is now broadly thought of one of many prime gamers within the sport. However that has additionally include a value because the 2023 US Open champion sees that she now has a goal on her again.
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The latest case of that occurred on Thursday in Toronto, the place world No. 72 Wang Yafan put up a really arduous battle and resistance earlier than Gauff accomplished a 6-4 6-4 win. Whereas Gauff has been fairly constant all through 2024, she did decide up back-to-back round-of-16 shock losses in her final two tournaments – she misplaced to Emma Navarro at Wimbledon and Donna Vekic on the Paris Olympics, respectively.
“Yeah, it is undoubtedly troublesome. I really feel like a variety of occasions folks play their greatest tennis in opposition to the higher-ranked gamers, and that is simply because they don’t have anything to lose, so it is undoubtedly a distinction. Yeah, however I believe general it simply makes me higher. If all people’s taking part in me at their excessive degree it might probably solely make me higher,” Gauff stated.
How Gauff felt about her play versus Wang?
Early within the first set, Gauff saved three break factors earlier than getting the primary break within the fourth sport. However Wang refused to give up and she or he managed to get the break again within the seventh sport. Nevertheless, the top-seeded American nonetheless gained the primary set after breaking Wang within the tenth sport – the sport through which the Chinese language was serving to remain within the first set.
Within the second set, one thing comparable occurred as Gauff blew an early break earlier than breaking Wang within the tenth sport to finish her win.
“I believe general I used to be taking part in the precise approach. I believe I simply made some errors, which was anticipated in the present day, it is solely my fourth day on arduous courtroom or, yeah, I took a while off after, nicely, two days off (laughing), a while, not lots, two days off after Olympics,” Gauff mirrored.
