Still only 18-years-old Coco Gauff celebrated her recent graduation with a victory at the 2022 Roland Garros as she defeated Rebecca Marino in the first round.
It was a very solid performance by the young American to kick-off her 2022 Roland Garros campaign as she needs to defend a lot of points after reaching quarterfinals last year. However, except for her tennis, many talked about Coco Gauff's recent graduation and while she's a great tennis player, she didn't hid the importance of education, when she said:
"For me, education and my family is very important," Gauff told reporters after her win. "Both my parents graduated college and my grandmothers are both teachers and I have a whole family really full of teachers."
"Finishing high school was important to me. I know on tour a lot of players don't always do that because you have tennis, but for me, tennis is what I do, but there are other interests that I have outside of tennis and definitely having knowledge on that can help me indulge in them more."
"For me personally I get more mentally exhausted than physically [at Slams]," Gauff said. "Like physically, I can play 20 more matches. Mentally, I'm barely grinding through this. So I'm very thankful for them because that could have been a lot more stressful if they weren't as understanding, which they probably could have been more because there was a lot of weeks I went without submitting work. But I got it done."
"I really enjoy writing and that's something I like doing. History as well. World War I and World War II are probably my favorite things to learn about, especially with traveling the world you can kind of see where things happened."
"My dad is a math guy. He's like, 'You need to be good at math.' And I'm like, 'Dad, listen, that's just something that I'm not going to do.' There's a calculator for a reason and there are all these apps for a reason. If you want to figure it out on paper, you do it."
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