19-Year-Old Gauff Feeling 'A Bit More Mature' In Her First Tournament In 2024
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Coco Gauff had a good start to the 2024 WTA season and she's feeling a bit more mature this year compared to previous years.
There is something in the saying that you can grow up overnight, and it's not just fluff. Those things tend to happen, and for Gauff, 2023 was a year of growing up. She's been a professional for a few years now, but enduring the previous season's roller coaster certainly impacted her.
She opened the year by winning a trophy at the ASB Classic in Auckland but then struggled to put together anything of note. She said Wimbledon was the lowest point in her career, but things changed.
She went back home to the United States and started winning again until the teenage prodigy found herself lifting the US Open trophy, and she was seemingly on top of the world.
The season was just up and down from start to finish. Things like that will mature you, and she feels a bit more mature this year compared to previous ones, as she revealed after her second win at the 2024 ASB Classic.
On the mental side I did feel a bit more mature, which is normal, because I am older and have been on tour longer.
The maturity isn't just on the mental side; it impacts tennis. She's seen it in these few matches she played. The shot selection is better than it was years ago, and she got to see that in person by taking on a 16-year-old.
She can see her old self in young Brenda Fruhvirtova and now understands the journey it took to get here. She's also excited to see how it pans out to her colleague from the Mouratoglou Academy.
I did feel that at certain points I probably won by playing the smarter shot. But I think she has a lot of talent and that comes with life. The same when I was 16, I has to learn a lot of things to be where I am.
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