Americana won its first Grand Slam on Saturday night
Coco Gauff, number six in the world, commented on the details of the first Grand Slam title won on Saturday night, beating Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka 2/6 6/3 6/2.
“I went into the match like I was anyone else. Honestly, I wasn’t nervous. She played great tennis and I knew the match was going to be about problem solving because she’s a tough rival,” said Gauff, who remembers the moment when met his team to celebrate. “When I hugged my dad I didn’t even see him, he immediately leaned in for the hug, but I heard him cry. I knew my mom would cry whether I won or lost. The whole time I was like, ‘ Oh my God, is this true?’ It felt real when I sat down before the ceremony. “I almost forgot to shake hands with the chair umpire.”
The tennis player commented at that moment her mind changed looking at the sequence of positive results in which she lost only one match in four tournaments, in Montreal, winning titles in Washington, Cincinnati and culminating with the victory in New York.
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“I would probably say that my vision changed in this Roland Garros. I felt the pressure of defending the final, which I didn’t do. So I had to start from scratch. Then Wimbledon happened. It was a very, very complicated defeat, because I felt like I was already playing good tennis first,” explains Gauff, who fell in the first round of the British Grand Slam. “Today there was no change in mentality. I felt I was playing to the best of my ability. I tried to give it my all. After hitting the ball with my backhand and involving the stands, I felt like I was coming home with the trophy.”
“I honestly didn’t have these visions until last night. I thought about it, but I forced myself not to think, because that’s what happened to me at Roland Garros. I already imagined what would happen if I won, I wanted it so much. thought last night, but I called my boyfriend until bedtime. After losing the first set, I felt like I was in the match. Even at match point, when I had the match in hand, I didn’t feel like I had just won. Yeah, it was crazy. I was trying to stay focused.”
The tennis player said she was relieved for her first Slam: “100%, a lot of relief. It’s not the predominant emotion, I think it’s the last one. In this moment I feel very happy. I was doing it for myself, not for the people. I have accepted all the positive and negative things that have been said about me. I know there are people who have to silence the comments, but I like to argue, I am very stubborn, my parents know it. If you tell to do something, I will do the opposite. Up until 10 minutes before the match I was reading comments from people saying that I wouldn’t win today. This fuels the fire inside me,” Coco said in a press conference.
“I think this is a huge accomplishment, but honestly I’ve been used to people having high expectations since I was 15 in high school. I’m sure it will be on a bigger scale now, but I’m prepared. I “I know how to control myself. I think I’ve taken the pressure off a little and I’m still hungry for more. It’s been a long road. At 15 I wasn’t fully developed as a player and for now I still have that. People He put a lot of pressure on me to win, I felt like I should win a Slam at 15.
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Now I realize that I have to go out and do my best. I remember losing when I was 17 and a statistic came out that said I wouldn’t win a Slam before Serena’s age. With things like that I felt like I had a time limit to overcome, and that if it happened after a certain age, it wouldn’t be much of an accomplishment anymore. “It’s crazy how many things I’ve heard or read about myself.”
“I would say after the Wimbledon defeat. People started saying that I had already reached the highest level of my career, that it was already over. People think I don’t see the comments, but that’s the way it is. After that match I knew I have a lot of work to do. I think it all started again in Washington, I felt I had confidence, but it didn’t get there. 2020 with COVID was also complicated.
In the past I considered myself a tennis player and felt that if I wasn’t good at tennis, I wouldn’t be a good person. It took me a long time to realize that the opposite is true. It was a struggle. I used my sneakers to find out what I was worth as a person. When I lost, I felt it wasn’t worth it. “My parents were always there to remind me that they loved me, no matter what.”
Source: Terra
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