Coco Gauff

Tennis phenom Coco Gauff is following in the footsteps of many young, Black and legendary athletes by giving back to the Black community and future student-athletes

Tennis season is wrapping up, and it is safe to say Coco Gauff closed out the year strong. Collecting her $4.8 million check, she won the WTA Finals after beating the two best players in the world —Aryna Sabalenka and Iga Swiatek– and eventually Olympic gold medalist Zheng Qinwen over the weekend to hoist the […]

Tennis fans are a year removed from Coco Gauff’s history-making first U.S. Open win, and now she’s returning to Queens to repeat. But she’s far from alone. Many other American tennis players arrived as well and are also ready to dominate the competition. It started with Atlanta native Ben Shelton getting the Americans off to […]

Coco Gauff‘s goal of winning a 2024 Olympic medal for Women’s tennis singles has officially been crushed. The 20-year-old phenom faced Croatia’s Donna Vekic and lost in three sets, 7-6 (7), 6-2, at Court Philippe Chatrier. Early in the third round, first set, it appeared she dug herself an easy path straight to the semifinals, but […]

The Paris Olympics are officially underway, but it wasn’t before Team USA made a star-studded appearance at the Opening Ceremony. Team USA, aboard a boat with a staggering 613 athletes representing the red, white, and blue, was anchored by LeBron James and Coco Gauff as it drifted down Paris’ famous Seine River. The momentous occasion […]

With the 2024 Paris Olympic Games set to begin, the USA is bringing out its best as flag bearers. The latest athlete to carry the honor is Coco Gauff, officially named Team USA’s female flag bearer for the Opening Ceremony. Gauff makes history as the first tennis player to get the rare opportunity. The 2023 […]

U.S. Open champion Coco Gauff is urging Americans, and particularly Floridans, to get out and vote, and she is letting it be known that she has just about had it with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his book-banning, Black history whitewashing and anti-woke ways. In Paris, during last week’s Italian Open, the tennis sensation might […]

Everyone was in love with Coco.

A new era of tennis has begun, and it belongs to Coco Gauff. Earlier this week, the US Open Women’s finals were set up as Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka and Gauff overcame the semifinals at Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens, NY. Sabalenka will be ranked Number 1 in the world come Monday, and with a few […]

Coco Gauff‘s dream of winning the US Open is inching closer and closer. In Thursday night’s match, she took on Karolina Muchova from the Soviet Union, currently ranking number 10 in the world. It was Gauff’s chance to prove herself on the big stage during the semifinals, and she once again showed why she is […]

She’s not quite John McEnroe, but Coco Gauff is making sure to advocate for herself. The 19-year-old tennis star was caught up in a controversy amid her opening match at the US Open earlier this week against Laura Siegemund. The German qualifier and Gauff both had heated exchanges with the umpire Marijana Veljovic after the […]

The Tokyo Olympics are starting to sound like a bad idea.