Coco Gauff took a CPR class, and she urged everyone to do so in order to be prepared to react if something unfortunate happened.
Coco Gauff confirmed after her most recent victory at the Citi Open that she took a CPR class. The American, who recently worked with Brad Gilbert, found the experience profound and urged everyone to do the same because you never know when you might need it.
It's not hard, nor does it take long, but it could make a huge difference for someone. The move to take the class was prompted by her understanding of how important it is to react when in those situations because she was in one such and didn't know how to.
Yeah, it was something I wanted to do, and also I had something similar happen, not to someone that I know, but it happened to -- I was practicing, and a guy unfortunately had, like, cardiac arrest, and he ended up didn't making it, yeah. And my dad had to do CPR on him.
So, yeah, and we couldn't find the AD. I had no clue how to work an AD, but my dad did, because, you know, he took the class. After that moment, this happened, like, three years ago, I just never did it. Then, you know, obviously everything that happened with my doubles partner's mom, Jess, yeah, her sister took that class before.
Being prepared is something Gauff understands means a lot as she's an athlete and they need to properly prepare for every match in order not to get injured. She hopes more people learn about it because it's very important.
I was, like, okay, I need to do it. It took 90 minutes but I learned so much. I was hoping that I wouldn't have to do nuttin' today, but if it came to that point, you know, at least I learned that. I had no clue what an AD was or no clue what CPR was, literally nothing. At least I felt a little more prepped in that moment.
Also, I have little cousin kids. So easy for them to choke and stuff. I was, like, let me just learn that, because I don't want to be in that moment, like I should have took that class. It took me 90 minutes. I had nothing else to do.
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