By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Friday October 6, 2023
Within the midst of her career-best 16-match profitable streak, after her newest triumph, a 6-2, 6-4 win over Greece’s Maria Sakkari, 19-year-old Coco Gauff admitted that it doesn’t fairly really feel like she has received 16 in a row, and amassed the longest profitable streak on the WTA Tour this yr.
“It would not really feel like 16. It type of glided by quick,” she mentioned.
What she does know – and is worked up about – is the truth that she believes she has not touched the tip of the iceberg together with her blossoming sport but. Gauff could be the hottest participant within the sport in the intervening time, and recent off her maiden main triumph, the place she grew to become the youngest American to win the US Open since Serena Williams in 1999, however she very a lot believes that one of the best is but to return.
Extra Excited for the Future
“Proper now I am doing these wins, however I do not really feel like I am enjoying my finest,” she advised reporters in Beijing, forward of her semifinal conflict with Iga Swiatek on Sunday (Saturday within the US). “I imply, all people is aware of I’ve so much to work on and may enhance on. I feel that is what makes me much more excited for the longer term, is as a result of I do know I can play higher and I can enhance on issues.
“If I am profitable proper now, not that will probably be simpler sooner or later, however at the very least, I do not know, I really feel like a number of the wins could be a little bit extra simple.”
Tea, calligraphy & enjoying the guzheng 🫖🖋️🎼@CocoGauff samples the native tradition on her first go to to Beijing forward of the @ChinaOpen!#ChinaOpen pic.twitter.com/24T3j2ptum
— wta (@WTA) October 1, 2023
On Going through Swiatek
Gauff will put her profitable streak on the road in opposition to the Polish juggernaut, who’s the WTA’s win chief in 2023, with 61.
The American snapped a seven-match run of futility in opposition to Swiatek on this yr’s Cincinnati remaining (she had misplaced all 14 units contested in opposition to Swiatek previous to that match) and says she is much more assured now than she was then.
She additionally believes that Swiatek deserves extra credit score for the kind of season she has had, even when she hasn’t at all times met the lofty expectations which were set for her.
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— wta (@WTA) October 6, 2023
“I’ve seen a number of the feedback individuals are saying, like she [didn’t have a] good season. I imply, she received a slam and was No. 1 eternally,” she mentioned, referring to Swiatek’s 75-week run on the high of the WTA rankings, which ended after the US Open. “I am like, I’d dream to have the season like she had this yr.”
Gauff, who has been loving her time in China, having fun with breakfasts of fried noodles and nutella – “I like Chinese language meals so I’ve no complaints,” she mentioned – says she’s going to enter her tussle with Swiatek with no expectations.
“I feel it’ll be a troublesome match,” she mentioned. “The kind of matches I had earlier than, I am not going to attempt to put an excessive amount of stress on myself. I misplaced to her plenty of occasions. I am simply making an attempt my finest to shut the head-to-head slightly bit nearer. I will attempt to get quantity two on the board. If not, I am actually proud of how I performed this week. I really feel extra assured moving into than I did in Cincinnati.”
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