Coco Gauff shows great sporting fairness. After their semi-final defeat against Every Swiatek at the WTA 1000 tournament in Rome Gauff admitted that she played well herself, but Swiatek was the better player.
by Johanna Brauer
last edited: May 17, 2024, 7:19 a.m
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Including yesterday’s semi-final, world number three Coco Gauff and world number one Iga Swiatek have already met ten times. Swiatek won nine of the ten matches. The young Pole won 6:4 and 6:3 against Gauff and thus reached the final of a WTA 1000 tournament again. Things are going extremely well for the world number one at the moment and the American also recognized that.
“I think the way I lost today wasn’t because something didn’t work, but because she (Iga Swiatek) was the better player today. When I lose games like that, we go back and train,” said 20-year-old Coco Gauff at the press conference after the semi-final. With regard to the upcoming French Open, the young American continued: “I know that she is the one I have to beat if I want to win Roland-Garros. I will take what I learned today with me and try to apply it in the next game, which will hopefully be in Roland-Garros.”
Gauff: “I would have won the match today against anyone else”
Overall, the world number three is very happy with her performance in Rome and sees great progress in her game. “When I look at the entire tournament from the beginning, I definitely feel like I made a big improvement,” Gauff reflected. But the Grand Slam winner cannot leave yet. Because tomorrow she will be in the semi-finals again in Rome. However, in doubles, together with the Australian Erin Routiffe.
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