“You just have to accept it” Coco Gauff comments on Emma Raducanu’s early exit due to intimidating grand slam final pressure

“You just have to accept it” Coco Gauff comments on Emma Raducanu’s early exit due to intimidating grand slam final pressure

Emma Raducanu and Coco Gauff

World No. 12, Coco Gauff is looking to reach her 2nd grand slam final of the year at the 2022 US Open. The teenage star battled Elena Ruse in the second round and managed to defeat her in straight sets, 6-2,7-6(4). She was down 5-3 in the second set but fought her way back to a tiebreak which she eventually won. Gauff has already achieved World No.1 doubles ranking this year. But the pressure of a grand slam final still surrounds the young star.

Coco Gauff reached the final of Roland Garros this year but lost the title to the current World No.1 Iga Swiatek. Gauff will be playing her third-round match against fellow American Madison Keys. Gauff opened for Serena Williams at the Arthur Ashe, a memory she’ll cherish forever. She said, “It’s a really big court and I’ve been watching Venus here, Serena here and now I’m playing here. It’s an honour to open up the court for her tonight.”

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I think people expect you to get over that final hurdle: Coco Gauff on Emma Raducanu’s struggle with reaching a grand slam final

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Coco Gauff revealed she’s hoping to reach a grand slam final again and how she tackles the looming pressure from friends and family. She said, “Getting to a final, I think people expect you to get over that final hurdle, and that’s something I expect of myself too because I know I feel it in me that I can repeat it and do it again. I didn’t expect myself to be so nervous before the final. Now that I know what to expect, I expect myself to at least do better.”

On defending champion, Emma Raducanu‘s early exit, Gauff commented, “Regarding the pressure, I learned in my life that you just have to accept it, you can’t ignore it. It’s going to be there. You feel it. Everybody else feels it for you. So instead of trying to say, ‘I’m not nervous,’ I’m saying, ‘I am nervous, I do feel pressure, I do feel this.’ Now once you acknowledge a problem, you can solve it.”

It’ll be riveting to see Coco Gauff in another grand slam final. She will also play the doubles tournament at the US Open with Jessica Pegula.

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