"Some players don't finish high school, but it was important to me" admits Gauff

| by Sebastian Dahlman

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."

Coco Gauff graduates high school and celebrates in Paris
Coco Gauff graduates high school and celebrates in Paris

"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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