Gauff: Solely No.1 Issues

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Friday Could 2, 2025

Relating to rankings, just one quantity issues to Coco Gauff: No.1.

After her 6-1, 6-1 victory over Iga Swiatek on Thursday in Madrid, Gauff instructed reporters that she’s not involved in any respect about what rating she’s going to maintain after the Madrid remaining.

“I will be sincere, it isn’t vital to me, actually,” Gauff mentioned, including: “The one quantity that will imply so much to me is 1 at this level. Something wherever else is simply, it is only a quantity. Oviously it is a reward for the work that I am doing and the consistency that I am exhibiting, however it’s not one thing that I take into consideration or have a objective to succeed in.”

For people who do care about such issues, Gauff can cross Swiatek within the rankings if she defeats Aryna Sabalenka in Saturday’s Madrid remaining.

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Gauff has taken the ability again from Swiatek of late. After shedding the primary seven matches of their rivalry, she has now received 4 of the final eight, and three in a row.

“I can’t imagine we performed one another this many occasions,” she mentioned. “I am 21 and I feel she’s 23. We’re so younger, and we each at the least have, I’d say, 10 extra years on this sport.

“So I would not be stunned if we… find yourself having the document for many occasions taking part in towards one another ever in tennis historical past actually at this level.”

Up to now the American was a sufferer of her personal nerves and expectations when going through Swiatek. Nowadays she says she’s not overthinking issues.

“I feel previously I nearly dialed in an excessive amount of the place I simply put a lot stress on myself,” she mentioned. “Now I simply really feel like, no matter. It is like, if I win, nice, I get one other win on the board of that head-to-head, and if I lose it is simply one other loss.

“I simply attempt to guarantee that after I play her, if I lose, it is as a result of she received the match and never as a result of I misplaced the match myself.”