Your Name: Cori. Your Nickname: Coco. Your claim: you want to be the best tennis player ever. Welcome to the world of Cori Gauff, which will be celebrated in Wimbledon just very.
There she sits. “I’m pleased to introduce Coco Gauff,” says the distinguished spokesperson of the All England Lawn Tennis club. The young girl, you imagine the joy, wears Dreadlocks, a cap with the Wimbledon Logo and a T-Shirt of your Furnisher. Inscription: “Fun Guy”.
A funny Type? Anyone who wants to reduce the 15-year-old Cori, called Coco, Gauff that has not realized (at least) two things about the vortex around the girl. Firstly, There is a from Florida on the Church Road in the London postal district SW 19, which is really a lot on the tennis court comes. And secondly, That Coco now knows a great deal about the role that it can play a dark-skinned, 179-cm tall tennis player in the success case.
Because the only “Fun Guy”
However, after the row. Last week, the tournament organizers celebrated the fact that had fought Cori as the youngest qualifier to the main draw. Then the draw with the 39-year-old Venus Williams, a opponent, the successes achieved in their first tournament, as Cori was not even born yet arrived. And then, what was for some, so surprisingly, took the Teenager completely disrespectful to the older colleague from the tournament. Because the only “Fun guy”.
So, since you are sitting in the press room and says things that would make other young talent may not go through. For example, that she had come to London to win this tournament. And that you believe it to be the best player in the world. Her father told her that when she was eight years old.
The father is still sitting quietly (bottom left), the mother donates already standing applause: Corey and Candi Gauff in the Box on the Wimbledon-tribune
A case of delusions of grandeur? No one in London would come on this day to the idea. Coco speaks with a quiet, husky voice, ready-to-print – and without seeming smug about it. When she had beaten her Idol Venus is actually on the court, she burst briefly into tears. “It is the first Time I cry after a Match, I won,” said the US teen to the 6:4, 6:4 against the 24-year-older woman. However, not only the mixture of serenity and emotionality is to keep so many in the Tennis circus Gauff for the next big thing in Tennis: “The next big thing”.
Remarkably, also plays Roger Federer a role. As he addressed in London on the duel of the ladies generations, and shows Federer how much he cares about the Tennis Talent Gauff. You work very hard, be a great Person. And he hope that they’ll let you on one of the great places to play at Wimbledon, as Federer. The message was: Coco plays on the almost fully occupied Court 1.
And this unpleasant Forehand Topspin, which was also Venus Williams could not put up much of a fight: Cori Gauff comes to the Match in Wimbledon
The Swiss Federer finds the Atlanta-born Junior player, you are able to also recognize the fact that his Agency’s “Team 8” has taken over, according to Reports, the marketing of the young woman. A decision for the company, Federer usual view on a playful quality: Cori is not only a “hard hitter”, as there are many young women in the Junior circle of the women’s Tennis Association (WTA). It also plays a such an extreme – and extremely unpleasant – Forehand-Topspin, your Racket, the Dreadlock-hairstyle ends up at the end of the beat movement, almost to the.
Bille Jean King spoke after the Match from a stunning victory.
“She is so cool, a great girl,” also Serena Williams know, the former “Role Model”. A young African-American girl in women’s Tennis for some time, the scene is already waiting for a new “Rising Star”, as other young players have not kept what they promised.
As Coco was seven years old, the family moved because of better training conditions from Atlanta to Delray Beach, Florida. Father Corry trains the daughter, mother Candy sits in the Box. Tennis determined the life of the Gauffs – although the subsidiary until two years ago, also a Basketball and track and field. In front of the journalists in Wimbledon Cori reported that she had written during qualifying at Wimbledon in an Online exam. Note: 2. For her first round match against Venus Williams, you gave himself, however, jokingly, a “smooth 1”.
Rihanna, Beyoncé, Miss Mulatto
At the Moment it is number 313 in the world. After the days of London will be different. And the journalists now not only know that the young Cori is one by none other than the Pop stars Rihanna and Beyonce to their idols. You know, now, whose music you hear when you enter the large Courts: Miss Mulatto, a Rap newcomer from Ohio. Cool thing, too.