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"I feed from negativity": Gauff uses abusive comments on social media as fuel to perform better
WTATuesday, 03 October 2023 at 01:30
America’s young tennis sensation Coco Gauff has revealed
that she used negative comments about her performances as a motivation.
The 19-year-old is often termed as one the most highly-rated
young women’s tennis players currently playing in the circuit.
Gauff has lived up to the hype in the recently concluded US
Open where she won her maiden Grand Slam title after beating the current world
number one Belarus’s Aryna Sabalenka in the final with a score of 2–6, 6–3, 6–2.
Gauff has recently quoted in a report where she stated that
one of the reasons of her recent rise is that she started taking negative
comments as a source of motivation to perform even better on the court.
“I feel like my brain just works different,” said the current
world number three. “I still have the filters on my Instagram. I don’t see
anything. I see the comments. I used to not be on Twitter at all. I’m still
really not on Twitter much.
“But sometimes you get caught up in the scroll. The way the
page is, the accounts that you interact with, you see yourself. Obviously I see
about myself, positive & negative and I wouldn’t say negativity is
something that’s welcome.
“It’s more, something that I draw inspiration from. I
wouldn’t recommend everybody to do that. Most of the time it’s negative things,
but it’s not like life-threatening things. Some of those comments can get out
of hand. But for the most part, I don’t know, it’s weird, maybe I feed from
negativity.
“That’s weird. A lot of players don’t like it. For me, I’m
very stubborn. I like to argue. I like to prove people wrong. My agent & my
team advise not to comment back, so I use my racquet to do it.”
Gauff is currently taking part in the China Open where she
has already booked her place in the second round after beating Russia’s Ekaterina
Alexandrova with a score of 7-5, 6-3.
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