Mood board for 2024 = medal at the Olympics 🏅 "Yeah, one of the goals I wrote down on my vision thing, was to win a medal in the Olympics. Ideally I would want to play all three." - @CocoGauff
Coco Gauff filled Serena Williams void says Jim Courier, says American winning year after retirement is a 'fairytale'
WTASunday, 14 January 2024 at 02:30
Former world number one Jim Courier believes that young tennis
star Coco Gauff has filled the void left by legendary Serena Williams.
The 19-year-old is often regarded as one the most
highly-rated players currently playing in the circuit in the women’s singles category.
She lived up to the hype in the last Grand Slam of the 2023 where she lifted
the title after beating the current world number two Belarus’ Aryna Sabalenka
with a score of 2–6, 6–3, 6–2.
Courier, who won four major titles in his illustrious
career, was recently quoted in a report where he stated that Gauff’s recent success
filled the void left by the absence of the former world number one Serena
Williams, who retired from the sport in 2022.
"Playing at the US Open, being an American player,
there's nothing like it in the sport,” said the 53-year-old. “Since Coco first
came into the scene, it was obvious that she should be destined for greatness.
Given Serena's swansong a year before, for Coco to come in and fill that void,
it really is like a fairy tale.
"Obviously, Serena and Venus, words can't describe what
they meant to me. All the things that they had to go through, they made it
easier for someone like me to do this. It's an honor. I hope that another girl
can see this and believe that they can do it, and hopefully their name could be
on this trophy too."
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