Coco Gauff was unaware that singles and doubles rankings existed when she was a kid but she doesn't mind after becoming the doubles number one.
Gauff's Toronto run was cut short by Simona Halep but the American stayed in the city to play the doubles with Jessica Pegula and they emerged victorious yesterday over Melichar and Perez. The win allowed both of them to climb on the doubles rankings with Pegula entering the top 10 and Gauff becoming world number one.
It made her quite happy as she wasn't aware that separate rankins were a thing:
"Being No. 1 is pretty cool. I have no words Honestly, as a kid, I didn't even know there were separate rankings for singles and doubles. So as a kid, no. But when I got on tour and realized I could do well in doubles, yes. I didn't put pressure on myself to do it, but I wanted to."
She continued:
"Who wouldn't want to be No. 1 in anything? But yeah, I would say when I got on tour and started doing well in doubles and my ranking started going up, I realized that No. 1 was possible."
It's a pretty cool achievement for Gauff who played in the Roland Garros final this year as well as the US Open final last year. She is in pretty good condition so another deep run at the US Open might be in play. It's only fitting for the world number one to win grand slams.