Coco Gauff Embarrassed After Mom Asks Her to Pose While Pointing Toward Roland Garros Poster

The Roland Garros is around the corner. The top players, after months of non-stop tennis, are getting as much rest as possible before the biggest clay-court tournament. Coco Gauff will enter the event as the defending champion.

Last year, the American ace came from a set down to defeat World No.1 Aryna Sabalenka, also winning her second singles title on clay. Gauff, just like last year, made the Italian Open final. While home favorite Jasmine Paolini beat her last year, this time, Elina Svitolina denied her the title.

The French Open will start on May 24. Gauff has already arrived in Paris with her mom, Candy Gauff. Candy often accompanies her daughter to tournaments and, recently, in an interview, said she prays a lot to stay calm while watching Gauff’s matches.

While strolling through the streets of Paris, Candy saw a Roland Garros poster featuring Gauff and asked her daughter to pose while pointing to it. Gauff shared the clip on her Instagram story and wrote this as a caption:

Traveling with mom is her forcing you to take pictures with every sign of yourself in the city. And she made me point too.

Last year on the clay swing, before her defeat to Paolini in Rome and win over Sabalenka in Paris, Gauff had lost the Madrid Open final to the four-time Grand Slam singles champion.

Brad Gilbert urges Coco Gauff to use her first serve more aggressively

Coco Gauff‘s former coach believes she will have more free points if she is more aggressive on the first serve. Gauff is working with biomechanics expert Gavin MacMillan to fix her serve issues, but they have not yet achieved good results because the 22-year-old leads in the double-fault hits this season (208). She served 25 double faults during the Italian Open. Gauff has won 64.9% of points from the first serve and 39.7% from the second serve this year.

She’s winning less than 40% of her second serve points on the year. Won less than that in this final. And one ace. I feel like I would like to see her be a little more aggressive on her first serve, especially when she has leads. Because she can hit her serve 125mph, and I think it always ups your kind of mojo when you can drop a few aces or serve plus one.

Brad Gilbert said on Tennis Channel’s The Big T podcast

Gilbert worked with Gauff from July 2023 to September 2024, and under him, she clinched her career’s first Grand Slam title at the 2023 US Open by defeating Aryna Sabalenka.

But I feel like now, obviously, she’s got great resilience. She moves better than any other woman. But you feel like maybe if she starts to use the serve a little more aggressively, I think she’ll start to win some more free points, which she needs to do.

Brad Gilbert added

The two-time Grand Slam singles champion has so far played two finals this year. Before her defeat to Elina Svitolina in Rome, Gauff lost the Miami Open final to Sabalenka. She last won a title at the 2025 Wuhan Open.

In Paris, Gauff has played four finals, two each in singles and doubles. Back in 2022, she reached the final in both events, losing in singles to four-time Roland Garros champion Iga Swiatek. In doubles, Gauff and Jessica Pegula lost to Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic.

Gauff and Katerina Siniakova beat Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini in the 2024 French Open final. And last year, Gauff finally tasted success in singles by beating Sabalenka.

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