Gauff: I Must Overlook Paris

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Saturday June 28, 2025

How will Coco Gauff course of enjoying Wimbledon so quickly after she simply climbed a serious hurdle in Paris, the place she grew to become the primary American girl to win Roland-Garros since Serena Williams in 2015?

Gauff says it shouldn’t be an issue. She’s all the time been a participant who has no downside letting the previous go.

“I am very a lot somebody who can look forward in a short time,” she instructed the media at Wimbledon on Saturday. “As soon as I received again from New York, I used to be just about extra targeted on right here, simply enthusiastic about what I must do, the place I really feel the areas of my recreation I would like to enhance on.”

Gauff, a two-time champion who enters Wimbledon because the No.2 seed, has by no means reached a quarterfinal on the All England Membership. She’s hoping to vary that this yr.

She says she’ll have loads of time to have fun her achievements after the season.

“I feel for me I would relatively simply keep within the second and take into consideration this and form of neglect the French,” she stated. “I nonetheless need to do very well right here. I really feel fairly assured on the courtroom. Yeah, for me it was essential simply to neglect, which is straightforward for me as a result of I am all the time on the lookout for the subsequent factor.

“I feel I need to eliminate it [from my memory]. When November comes, I am going to revisit.”

Gauff says she has spent many of the final two weeks re-acclimating her recreation to the grass, which suggests studying to hit extra slice, and hitting a flatter ball. There has additionally been further emphasis on the motion and on the serve.

“It is clearly loads totally different than clay,” the 21-year-old stated. “[I am just trying to] preserve the ball decrease. Clearly clay, it is enjoying with a whole lot of peak, heaviness, and that kind of recreation. [On grass] I really feel it’s worthwhile to play a little bit bit decrease and a little bit bit extra aggressive than the clay season, which is a bit troublesome simply since you spend I do not know nonetheless many lengthy weeks the clay is enjoying a sure kind of means.

“Then we come on grass, and now we have 13 days to utterly – not utterly change since you nonetheless have the core of your recreation – however simply change a little bit bit the way you play.”