Gauff: Solely No.1 Issues

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Friday Could 2, 2025

In terms of rankings, just one quantity issues to Coco Gauff: No.1.

After her 6-1, 6-1 victory over Iga Swiatek on Thursday in Madrid, Gauff informed reporters that she’s not involved in any respect about what rating she’s going to maintain after the Madrid closing.

“I will be trustworthy, it is not essential to me, actually,” Gauff mentioned, including: “The one quantity that might imply quite a bit to me is 1 at this level. Something anyplace else is simply, it is only a quantity. Oviously it is a reward for the work that I am doing and the consistency that I am displaying, but it surely’s not one thing that I take into consideration or have a objective to achieve.”

For people who do care about such issues, Gauff can move Swiatek within the rankings if she defeats Aryna Sabalenka in Saturday’s Madrid closing.

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Gauff has taken the facility again from Swiatek of late. After dropping the primary seven matches of their rivalry, she has now gained 4 of the final eight, and three in a row.

“I can not imagine we performed one another this many occasions,” she mentioned. “I am 21 and I believe she’s 23. We’re so younger, and we each at the very least have, I’d say, 10 extra years on this recreation.

“So I would not be stunned if we… find yourself having the document for many occasions taking part in in opposition to one another ever in tennis historical past actually at this level.”

Previously the American was a sufferer of her personal nerves and expectations when dealing with Swiatek. Lately she says she’s not overthinking issues.

“I believe up to now I nearly dialed in an excessive amount of the place I simply put a lot stress on myself,” she mentioned. “Now I simply really feel like, no matter. It is like, if I win, nice, I get one other win on the board of that head-to-head, and if I lose it is simply one other loss.

“I simply attempt to be sure that after I play her, if I lose, it is as a result of she gained the match and never as a result of I misplaced the match myself.”