Gauff: Only No.1 Matters

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Friday Might 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 instructed reporters that she’s not involved in any respect about what rating she’s going to maintain after the Madrid ultimate.

“I’ll be trustworthy, it isn’t essential to me, truthfully,” Gauff stated, including: “The one quantity that will imply loads to me is 1 at this level. Something wherever 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 displaying, however it’s not one thing that I take into consideration or have a purpose to succeed in.”

For those who do care about such issues, Gauff can cross Swiatek within the rankings if she defeats Aryna Sabalenka in Saturday’s Madrid ultimate.

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Gauff has taken the facility again from Swiatek of late. After shedding the primary seven matches of their rivalry, she has now received 4 of the final eight, and three in a row.

“I can not imagine we performed one another this many instances,” she stated. “I am 21 and I feel she’s 23. We’re so younger, and we each at the least have, I might say, 10 extra years on this recreation.

“So I would not be shocked if we… find yourself having the file for many instances enjoying in opposition to one another ever in tennis historical past truthfully at this level.”

Previously the American was a sufferer of her personal nerves and expectations when going through Swiatek. Nowadays she says she’s not overthinking issues.

“I feel prior to now I virtually dialed in an excessive amount of the place I simply put a lot strain on myself,” she stated. “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 make it possible for once 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.”