Australian Open 2024: Gauff doesn’t need to read coach’s ‘Winning Ugly’ manual
Coco Gauff eked out a victory to reach her first Australian Open semi-final on Tuesday and while the victory was more graft than glamour the U.S. Open champion was just fine with that. The three-hour, eight-minute battle against Ukrainian world number 37 Marta Kostyuk took nearly as long as three of her previous four matches at Melbourne Park combined, with Gauff eventually prevailing 7-6 6-7 6-2. “I think today was definitely a C game, so didn’t play my best tennis - but really proud that I was able to get through today’s match,” Gauff told reporters. “Hopefully got the bad match out of the way and I can play even better.” RELATED: Djokovic extinguishes Fritz fire to make semis The world number four, playing a Grand Slam for the last time as a teenager, lived out her coach Brad Gilbert’s strategy, captured in his tennis manual “Winning Ugly”. “I bought a copy but I didn’t read it,” said Gauff, who is looking to become the first woman in three years to win the U.S. Open and Australian Open back-to-back.
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