“Venus and Serena have been Coco’s idols, so to announce herself on the Grand Slam stage within the first yr of the US Open after Serena’s retirement – a event the place we noticed Serena carry the general public curiosity for a few a long time – is fairly poetic,” he stated.
Making the Florida native’s title run all of the extra spectacular was her means to win with out her greatest tennis. Gauff’s recreation remains to be blossoming in some ways, however mentally she was pretty much as good as she might be as she navigated 4 three-setters to earn her maiden main triumph and change into the youngest American to win a significant since Serena Williams in 1999.
“She didn’t play her greatest each single match, together with the ultimate, so essentially the most spectacular factor to me was the adjustment in technique and turning her common days into three-set wins,” Roddick stated, including:
“She tried to go extra toe-to-toe with Aryna Sabalenka within the first set and realized that wasn’t going to work, so she wanted to make her hit as many photographs as attainable and depend on her legs. She went with the mentality of claiming, ‘I’m going to be a quantity shooter, you’re going to must beat me 4 or 5 occasions in a rally and I’m going to convey 25,000 of my closest mates into this match, too.’”
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