Coco Gauff Reveals her Major Career Goals as she’s “Not Close to Being Satisfied”
Coco Gauff will enter the WTA Finals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as the defending champion.
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Coco Gauff has enjoyed the good part and rough patch of her 2025 season. With only two titles to her name this season, she has done well to reach four tour-level tournament finals, including a Grand Slam final. However, she has revealed that she’s not fully satisfied with her performances on the court and hopes to do more.
Gauff claimed her first Grand Slam at the US Open in 2023 after beating Aryna Sabalenka in three sets. The American star then failed to win a major title last season and didn’t get to a final. Her best run in the 2024 Grand Slams was reaching the semi-finals of the Australian Open and the French Open.
Nonetheless, she began the 2025 season with high expectations but had to wait until the clay season to hit form. During the clay-court swing, she reached the final of three consecutive tournaments, losing to Sabalenka and 2024 Wimbledon finalist Jasmine Paolini at the Madrid Open and Italian Open, respectively.
It was at the French Open that the 21-year-old finally earned her second Grand Slam title, defeating Sabalenka in three sets. But after that she began to struggle on the court, crashing out early in tournaments, including the Wimbledon Championships. But, she found her confidence at the Wuhan Open, where she defeated Jessica Pegula 6-4, 7-5 to win her second title of the season.
She has officially qualified for her fourth consecutive WTA Finals, closing out another remarkable season. During an interview with WTA, she revealed that despite accomplishing some of her goals she’s not yet satisfied with her achievements on the court. She added that she hopes to win more Slams and get to the World No.1:
Accomplishing your goals, for sure, that’s the meaning of success, I guess on a tennis literal sense. Obviously, on a life scale sense, I definitely think being happy is the biggest reward you can have. When I was growing up, I definitely wanted to be the best tennis player for sure in the world. That was my goal. And I mean, it still is. I still want to be the best player. I want to reach number one one day and win more slams. And I’m definitely not close to being satisfied.
Gauff experienced a difficult spell after winning the French Open as she failed to win a single grass-court match. She crashed out in the opening rounds of the Berlin Tennis Open and then lost to Dayana Yastremska in the first round of the Wimbledon Championships. She regained her form during the Asian swing.
Coco Gauff admits she’s living her dream on tour this season
Coco Gauff will enter the WTA Finals in Riyadh as the defending champion. She won the tournament for the first time in her career last year after beating Qinwen Zheng in the final in three sets. She will be hoping to do the same this year even though the likes of Iga Swiatek and Aryna Sabalenka will fight for the title.
In fact, Sabalenka, who has spent a full year as World No.1, has yet to win the WTA Finals in her career. Gauff revealed during the aforementioned interview that she’s currently living her dreams on tour:
It feels like where I am now is where I’m supposed to be. I feel like this is the life that I wanted for myself and that I work for. I definitely feel like for the first like four years of my career, I couldn’t believe that I was actually on tour and living the dream.
Gauff was heavily criticized for her serving troubles at the start of the North American hard-court swing. She hit more than 40 unforced errors at the Canadian Open, and that forced her to hire a Biomechanical coach, Gavin MacMillan. He has helped deal with some of her serving problems on the court but Gauff will be hoping to continue with the improvement.
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