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 significant hurdle in Paris, the place she turned the primary American lady to win Roland-Garros since Serena Williams in 2015?

Gauff says it shouldn’t be an issue. She’s all the time 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 instructed the media at Wimbledon on Saturday. “As soon as I acquired again from New York, I used to be just about extra centered on right here, simply fascinated with what I must do, the place I really feel the areas of my sport I would like 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 yr.

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

“I believe for me I might moderately simply keep within the second and take into consideration this and sort of overlook the French,” she mentioned. “I nonetheless need to do very well right here. I really feel fairly assured on the courtroom. Yeah, for me it was necessary simply to overlook, which is simple for me as a result of I am all the time on the lookout for the following factor.

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

Gauff says she has spent many 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 rather a lot totally different than clay,” the 21-year-old mentioned. “[I am just trying to] hold the ball decrease. Clearly clay, it is enjoying with a whole lot of top, heaviness, and that kind of sport. [On grass] I really feel you should play somewhat bit decrease and somewhat bit extra aggressive than the clay season, which is a bit troublesome simply since you spend I do not know nevertheless many lengthy weeks the clay is enjoying a sure kind of approach.

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