By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Friday Could 2, 2025
With regards to rankings, just one quantity issues to Coco Gauff: No.1.
After her 6-1, 6-1 victory over Iga Swiatek on Thursday in Madrid, Gauff advised reporters that she’s not involved in any respect about what rating she’s going to maintain after the Madrid remaining.
“I will be sincere, it is not essential to me, truthfully,” Gauff mentioned, including: “The one quantity that will imply loads to me is 1 at this level. Something anyplace else is simply, it is only a quantity. Oviously it is a reward for the work that I am doing and the consistency that I am exhibiting, nevertheless it’s not one thing that I take into consideration or have a aim to achieve.”
For those who do care about such issues, Gauff can cross Swiatek within the rankings if she defeats Aryna Sabalenka in Saturday’s Madrid remaining.
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Gauff has taken the ability again from Swiatek of late. After dropping the primary seven matches of their rivalry, she has now received 4 of the final eight, and three in a row.
“I can’t imagine we performed one another this many occasions,” she mentioned. “I am 21 and I feel she’s 23. We’re so younger, and we each no less than have, I might say, 10 extra years on this sport.
“So I would not be stunned if we… find yourself having the report for many occasions taking part in in opposition to one another ever in tennis historical past truthfully at this level.”
Prior to now the American was a sufferer of her personal nerves and expectations when going through Swiatek. Lately she says she’s not overthinking issues.
“I feel previously I nearly dialed in an excessive amount of the place I simply put a lot stress on myself,” she mentioned. “Now I simply really feel like, no matter. It is like, if I win, nice, I get one other win on the board of that head-to-head, and if I lose it is simply one other loss.
“I simply attempt to ensure that after I play her, if I lose, it is as a result of she received the match and never as a result of I misplaced the match myself.”
