Coco Gauff Disappointed With Her Performance Despite Cementing Her Canadian Open Fourth-Round Spot

Coco Gauff beats Veronika Kudermetova to reach the Canadian Open fourth round for the third time in her career.

Coco Gauff Disappointed With Her Performance Despite Cementing Her Canadian Open Fourth-Round Spot

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Coco Gauff sealed her place in the fourth round of the Canadian Open after coming from a set down to beat former top 10 player Veronika Kudermetova in Montreal. The 21-year-old hit over a dozen double faults for the second consecutive match on the hard courts and revealed her disappointment with her performance despite the victory.

Gauff kicked off her North America hard-court swing against Danielle Collins at the Canadian Open. The American star served 23 double faults but still battled hard to overcome her fellow compatriot in three sets. She continued with the same poor performance against Kudermetova in the third round and was down in the first set.

In the second set, she found herself down 1-3 before coming from behind to win the set 7-5 following a good display from Kudermetova. However, it was in the third set that she took her double-fault tally to 14, making it 37 double faults in just two matches, which is very strange for a player of her ranking and talent.

The World No.2 went on to win the match 4-6, 7-5, 6-2 in two hours and 32 minutes on the court. She extended her head-to-head record against Kudermetova to 3-1, losing just their first career meeting at the 2023 Qatar Open. Gauff is now into the round of 16 of the Canadian Open for the third time in her career.

During her press conference, she was asked about what she has to do concerning serving double faults in every match at the Canadian Open. She revealed that she’s disappointed with her game in that regard, but the only positive thing she could pick was the win in the end:

Obviously, I’m very disappointed with myself regarding that part of the game just because I didn’t play in Washington to work on it, make changes, and do well in training, where I was serving very well, so I would like that to transfer to the match. The positive is that I’m winning these matches literally having a part of my game on crutches. It’s as if I could lean on both feet, then I can only imagine it would be much easier and much simpler for me.

Even though Gauff’s double faults have yet to cost her a win in Montreal, she has lost several matches because of them last season. She famously hit 19 double faults during her fourth-round loss to Emma Navarro at the US Open in 2024. The American star served 21 during her Wuhan Open loss to Aryna Sabalenka later that season.

Coco Gauff aims to reduce the number of double faults she hits on the court

At the 2025 Indian Wells, Coco Gauff served 21 double faults during her match against Moyuka Uchijima, but she won the clash in the third-set tiebreak. The American star has managed to win titles despite her double faults. In fact, this season, she stunned the tennis world by beating Aryna Sabalenka in the final of the French Open.

Coco Gauff
Coco Gauff (Image via X/Coco Gauff)

During the aforementioned press conference, she revealed that she understands that she would never be free of double faults in her game, but she hopes to reduce them by two or three percent:

I don’t want to lead that statistic, and I want to improve. I know I’ll probably never be free of double faults, but if I could reduce it to 2% or 3%, that would make a big difference and would make these matches much easier. The fact that I’m winning matches and finding ways to win with that is undoubtedly a positive thing.

Gauff will face 18-year-old Canadian sensation Victoria Mboko in the fourth round in Montreal. The youngster defeated Marie Bouzkova in three sets in the third round on Thursday (July 31). It will be the second meeting between Gauff and Mboko, with the former winning their first at the Italian Open in May.

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