US Open: Coco Gauff - Balancing brave tennis with fight for social justice - Tennis News - Sportstar
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US Open: Coco Gauff - Balancing brave tennis with fight for social justice - Tennis News - Sportstar

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Listen to Coco Gauff speak about tennis, and she hardly sounds like a 16-year-old. Then she made it to the third round at Flushing Meadows before losing to 2018 champion Naomi Osaka in a match that ended in tears for the teen and a hug from the winner.After collecting a singles trophy at Linz, Austria, in October - becoming the youngest WTA title winner since 2004 - Gauff began the 2020 Grand Slam season by defeating Williams again and winning a rematch against Osaka at the Australian Open en route to the fourth round there.Gauff has a tough assignment in her first-round match at the U.S. Open, facing 31st-seeded Anastasija Sevastova, a 30-year-old from Latvia who was a semifinalist in New York two years ago. That's what I'm going to do at the U.S. "So one win is just a win, one loss is just a loss - but to be learned from.Beaten at Lexington, Kentucky, this month in the semifinals of her first tournament after tennis was suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic, Gauff said afterward she would head to her hotel room and watch the defeat to try to understand what happened. ""It was just definitely from the heart, and I think when you speak from the heart, you get the message that you want," Gauff said.

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