Coco Gauff Pays Tribute To TikTok With A Broken Heart After Australian Open Win
Huff PostLOADING ERROR LOADING MELBOURNE, Australia — American tennis star Coco Gauff mourned the loss of TikTok’s app back home, writing on a TV camera lens “RIP TikTok USA” and drawing a broken heart right after winning a match at the Australian Open to reach the quarterfinals. Gauff’s 5-7, 6-2, 6-1 victory over Belinda Bencic in the Grand Slam tournament’s main stadium finished on Sunday afternoon local time in Melbourne — about an hour after TikTok could no longer be found on prominent app stores on Saturday in the United States. In this case, Gauff paused a bit to think and said, “I think I’m going to go with this one,” before offering her TikTok message in blue ink. I hope it will stay, obviously I don’t know all the security issues and things like that.” The company’s app was removed from prominent app stores, including the ones operated by Apple and Google, while its website told users that the short-form video platform was no longer available.
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