Gauff: I Feel Pretty Good About My Chances

By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Wednesday, March 13, 202

Coco Gauff insists she’s not a celebration particular person.  

The US Open champion celebrated her twentieth birthday at the moment doling out a bagel to ignite a birthday blast.

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In her finest match of the match, Gauff streaked via eight straight video games thrashing Elise Mertens 6-0, 6-2 to cost into the Indian Wells quarterfinals for the second straight yr.

A day that started with a birthday name from her beloved grandmother noticed Gauff drop the hammer successful 26 of 31 first-serve factors in a 66-minute sweep.

Regardless of the birthday brilliance, Gauff is not planning an intensive celebration—only a quiet dinner with household and opening some presents later—as a result of she’s “not an enormous occasion, celebration particular person” and since she feels there’s unfinished enterprise within the desert.

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The third-ranked Gauff improves to 15-3 on the season and can face both Eleventh-seeded Daria Kasatkina or China’s Yue Yuan for a semifinal spot.

Usually, Gauff does not purchase herself birthday items, however clearly has her eye on the BNP Paribas Open title trophy to cap a birthday week.

“I believe, clearly I wish to win this match, I am taking part in in it,” Gauff instructed the media in Indian Wells. “However I’ll say, yeah, it is undoubtedly one of many tournaments I wish to win no less than as soon as in my profession. Hopefully it may be now. I really feel fairly good about my probabilities.

“Clearly Miami being a house match, that might be a dream to win, as properly.”

She’s already gained a Grand Slam championship as a teen and Gauff has main targets for her 20s.

“I assume tennis targets, undoubtedly to win some extra slams, and I wish to medal at this Olympics or 2028. That may be cool,” Gauff stated. “Then life targets, truthfully, I have never thought that far.

“Yeah, I imply, I am not making an attempt to do something, I am not making an attempt to get married or something (smiling). Undoubtedly no youngsters. Yeah, simply tennis proper now and we’ll see the place life takes me off the courtroom.”

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