Coco Gauff's ex-coach lauds her for thumping win against Iga Swiatek at Madrid Open

Famous tennis coach Brad Gilbert has praised America’s Coco Gauff after her incredible win in the semifinal of the Madrid Open. The WTA 1000 event is moving closer to its conclusion where the finalists have been already confirmed.

One of them will be world number four America’s Gauff who secured a thumping win over the defending champion and reigning world number two Poland’s Iga Swiatek with a score of 6-1, 6-1.

Famous tennis coach Gilbert, who worked with Gauff in the past, in a post on the social media platform X—previously known as Twitter — praised the one-time Grand Slam winner for her impressive outing against one of the best players in the world. “Mighty impressive effort from Coco, absolutely hammers 🔨 Iga Pop for her  1st win on clay 🧱 and 3rd straight win overall,” he wrote.

Talking after the match, Gauff stated that she was happy with her performance and believed that her mentality played a big role in her win. “I think the mentality that I had the whole match,” she said as quoted by WTA’s official website. “I was aggressive and played with margin. Maybe it wasn’t her best level. For me, it was just making sure my level stayed the same. In the second, I raised it.”

On the other hand, her opponent Swiatek was clearly distraught with her performance and had no answers to where it went all wrong. “Honestly, there’s nothing like to walk through because it was all pretty much the same from the beginning to the end,” she said. “I couldn’t really get my level up. Coco played good, but, yeah, I think it’s on me that I didn’t really move well, I wasn’t ready to play back the shots with heaviness. With that kind of game, it was pretty bad. I think I pushed kind of with my head for more than I even should, tennis-wise. Today for sure everything kind of collapsed, both tennis-wise and I feel like I wasn’t even in the right place with my feet before the shots. I wish I would have moved better, because I think that would get me any opportunity to bounce back, because this is usually what happens.”