Coco Gauff’s confession after the US Open: “Here everything changed”

Corey Goff He finished the tournament brilliantly US OpenWhere she became the champion after an exciting final with Aryna Sabalenka in three sets and in the place where she removed the big thorn in her career. The analysis left by the 19-year-old tennis player who was the world coup champion.

In the press conference after the final at Flushing Meadows, the six-time champion and world No. 3 explained what the turning point in her career was: “Honestly, I probably feel like at Roland Garros… that’s where everything changed. Because I felt the pressure to get back to the final, and obviously I didn’t.”

It is worth remembering that Cocu had reached the final of the Paris Grand Slam in 2022 (lost to Iga Swiatek) This edition has already arrived and all eyes are on it to see if it will repeat the title definition, even though it was eliminated in the quarter-finals. As a result, she explained that this marked her.

“The French Open moment, I don’t know… I don’t know if the cameras caught it, but I saw Iga (Swiatek) lift that cupAnd I looked at her all the time. I said to myself, ‘I won’t take my eyes off her, because I want to feel what I felt for her.She added, referring to that moment that motivated her to move forward.

Goff gives an exceptional final performance in Arthur Ashe. In the face of the crowd’s heat, he managed to reverse the score and He took the first Main from his career. This can be explained in another resonant phrase he left at the press conference: “I entered the game as if I were someone else. Honestly, I wasn’t nervous.”

Despite her young age, the Delray Beach native’s charisma and hunger for glory are eloquent. Finally, she remembered what that moment was like after she became champion: “When I hugged my father, I didn’t see him, he went to hug me, but I heard him crying. I knew my mother would cry whether she won or lost. All the time I was saying to myself: “Oh my God, is this real?” I felt the reality when I sat down before the ceremony. “I almost forgot to shake the chair umpire’s hand.”.

With this title, Coco Gauff became the fourth local tennis player to achieve it this century, after Serena Williams, Venus Williams, and Sloane Stephens. Starting Monday, as the new Grand Slam champion, she will also celebrate her best position as the third racket on the planet behind Aryna Sabalenka (1st) and Iga Swiatek (2nd).

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