“That happened a lot. I'm a little girl hitting with people who were older, and they were surprised by how balls came off my racket. They may have looked at it as hitting against a little girl. I looked at it as playing with people who were older and trying to get better.”

American professional tennis player

Cori Dionne “Coco” Gauff is an American professional tennis player. She has reached world No. 2 in singles and world No. 1 in doubles in the WTA rankings. Born in 2004, she has become a leading figure in modern tennis. Gauff has won twelve singles titles, including the 2023 US Open, the 2025 French Open, the 2024 WTA Finals, and four WTA 1000 tournaments. In doubles, she has won ten titles, among them the 2024 French Open with Kateřina Siniaková. Her results place her among the most prominent players of her generation.