Richard Pagliaro | Wednesday, September 3, 2025
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New York-Coco Goff’s A former world number one said that the identity crisis is deeper than her serving.
A few days before the start of the U.S. Open, Gauff hired biomechanics coach Gavin Macmillan, who helped rebuild Aryna Sabalenka’s serve to resolve her willful serve.
The previous one The 1st world Justin Henning Speaking of Gauff’s revised service motion, many lack a more obvious vulnerability: the Western-Grip forehand of the dominant Roland Garros Championship.
Speech EUROSPORT back Naomi OsakHenning called Goff’s forehand “disastrous” with a 6-3, 6-2 blow in the fourth round of the U.S. Open.
“Osaka also does what she has to do by playing with her own experience,” Henin told Eurosport. “She doesn’t have to force her talent today, showing her firmness and presence.
“From the start of the game, we felt Coco Gauff was back in her old ways, not especially with her serving but with her forehand, which was disastrous.
“Obviously, this huge pressure was special for her at the U.S. Open, but I still think the whole season, and not much of the result, what worries me is the lack of evolution in her game. At that age, you’re still improving, you’re still growing.”
To be fair, Gauff and Macmillan worked together for about a week before the U.S. Open began. Apparently, her serve and forehand were in progress.
Roland Garros champion Gauff said her serve was sharper after losing to Osaka, but he admitted that her terrain disappointed her as Osaka repeatedly slammed her forehand, which lacked net approval and depth.
In the rematch of the U.S. Open Championship, a sharp Osaka smashed a sloppy Goff, who admitted she felt “a little empty” on the court today.
“Naomi has performed well. Today is disappointing because I feel like this is the best I have served
Contest. Many aces.
Double, but I think it’s a good performance for my service.
“On the ground, I think I just made too many mistakes, too many mistakes, and I feel like this is part of the game where I’m most confident in playing the game. So it’s a weird game, like feeling confident about the exchange of different fields.
“Yes, I mean, it’s a disappointment. To be sure, it’s not the level I want to bring, but it’s a step in the right direction, I think there’s so much emotion this week, I think today I just stepped in and I’m probably a little empty. She forced me to win every point today.”
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To be sure, Gauff and Macmillan still have a lot of work to do, but Gauff has won the Grand Slam this season and is dominating the WTA finals, all at the age of 21, so time is right around her as her goal is to develop her own game.
“I think today, when I was walking on the court – I don’t know, I feel like I put a lot of pressure on myself at 21, and I realize how much success the girls on the Tour have at those ages at 25 or 26,” Gough said. “For me, it made me excited to realize that I still have four years of work, just as hard as I am now, and actually doing the right thing like where my game might be.”
