Coco Gauff says beating her in tennis is about skill level, not sex

Cori “Coco” Gauff dominated the game of tennis. She beat tennis legend Venus Williams at the Australian Open and won her first singles title at just 15, second The New York Times. Now she’s letting the world know: if you’re better than her at tennis, it’s your skill, not your gender. He says, “If you are a true athlete, then you understand.”

On TikTok, now 16-year-old Coco responded to a comment saying she wouldn’t be able to beat a male tennis player because she’s a girl. “Brother what don’t you understand she plays GIRLS tennis, she plays tennis BOYS, the skill gap is immeasurable,” the comment said. “A professional girl wouldn’t even win boys states.”

But Coco has set the record straight. He began by saying that despite his age, he plays women’s tennis, not women’s tennis. In addition to Venus Williams, she has also played against other professionals such as Daria Kasatkina and Asia Muhammad.

“If you think you’re better than me just because you’re a boy and I’m a girl, it doesn’t make any sense,” he says in part. He goes on to say: “If you could say you can beat me because you think your skill level is better than mine, I respect that, we could go out and compete and see who is better.”

Watch Coco just talk about facts below:

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