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Novak Djokovic feels Cori Gauff is “coming very shut” to being able to win Grand Slams and dominate the ladies’s sport. Gauff, 19, launched herself to the tennis world when she defeated Venus Williams en path to reaching the Wimbledon round-of-16 as a 15-year-old lady in 2019.
Since then, Gauff has been to at least one Grand Slam closing and has additionally been ranked as excessive as No 4 on the earth. Previous to the beginning of the North American hard-court swing, Gauff added Andre Agassi’s former long-time coach Brad Gilbert to her crew.
Since including Gilbert, Gauff gained Washington and likewise grew to become a WTA 1000 champion in Cincinnati. Now, Gauff is aiming to win her first Grand Slam title on the US Open and Djokovic says the American is deservedly having excessive hopes at Flushing Meadows this 12 months.
Djokovic thinks ‘issues are coming collectively’ for Gauff
“And Coco is on the rise.
I feel, you understand, she’s but to win a Grand Slam, however performed within the finals. She’s nonetheless younger, however now Brad Gilbert on her aspect with the good expertise of teaching a number of the greats, I feel issues are coming collectively for her.
She performed actually good tennis in Cincinnati and likewise she’s been enjoying nicely right here. She’s obtained the house help, in fact, which is at all times welcome and wanted. Bodily she appears to be very match. She’s placing the ball very nicely.
You recognize, I feel she broke to the sort of prime of the ladies’s sport fairly early. Some years in the past I feel she was like 16, 17, when she performed fourth spherical of Wimbledon. However it nonetheless takes a while, a couple of years for issues to come back collectively the place you’re feeling that you’re full as a participant, that you’re able to win slams and dominate the sport.
I feel she’s coming very near that stage and that stage. So I am certain that she has very excessive hopes for US Open and she or he ought to, as a result of she’s enjoying rather well,” Djokovic stated.
