I Need to Forget Paris

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Saturday June 28, 2025

How will Coco Gauff course of enjoying Wimbledon so quickly after she simply climbed a serious hurdle in Paris, the place she turned the primary American girl to win Roland-Garros since Serena Williams in 2015?

Gauff says it shouldn’t be an issue. She’s at all times been a participant who has no drawback letting the previous go.

“I am very a lot somebody who can look forward in a short time,” she informed the media at Wimbledon on Saturday. “As soon as I received again from New York, I used to be just about extra centered on right here, simply interested by what I have to do, the place I really feel the areas of my sport I want to enhance on.”

Gauff, a two-time champion who enters Wimbledon because the No.2 seed, has by no means reached a quarterfinal on the All England Membership. She’s hoping to vary that this 12 months.

She says she’ll have loads of time to have a good time her achievements after the season.

“I believe for me I would slightly simply keep within the second and take into consideration this and form of neglect the French,” she stated. “I nonetheless need to do rather well right here. I really feel fairly assured on the courtroom. Yeah, for me it was vital simply to neglect, which is simple for me as a result of I am at all times in search of the subsequent factor.

“I believe I need to eliminate it [from my memory]. When November comes, I will revisit.”

Gauff says she has spent a lot of the final two weeks re-acclimating her sport to the grass, which suggests studying to hit extra slice, and hitting a flatter ball. There has additionally been further emphasis on the motion and on the serve.

“It is clearly quite a bit completely different than clay,” the 21-year-old stated. “[I am just trying to] preserve the ball decrease. Clearly clay, it is enjoying with a whole lot of peak, heaviness, and that sort of sport. [On grass] I really feel it’s good to play a bit bit decrease and a bit bit extra aggressive than the clay season, which is a bit troublesome simply since you spend I do not know nonetheless many lengthy weeks the clay is enjoying a sure sort of method.

“Then we come on grass, and now we have 13 days to fully – not fully change since you nonetheless have the core of your sport – however simply change a bit bit the way you play.”