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Coco Gauff is an American tennis player and a two-time Grand Slam champion. In 2023, aged 19, she became the youngest woman to win the US Open since Serena Williams in 1999, and she won Roland-Garros in 2025. She also won the WTA Finals in 2024.
The fourth seed at the 2026 WTA Finals in Indian Wells, she opens against Jessica Pegula, three points behind her in the race for year-end No. 4.
She reached the quarter-finals of the Australian Open, where Elina Svitolina beat her 6-1, 6-2, then came back from a forearm injury to reach her first Miami final and a second straight Rome final.
As defending champion at Roland-Garros, she lost in the third round to Anastasia Potapova, who won 4-6, 7-6 (1), 6-4. In August, she won her second Cincinnati title, beating Pegula 6-2, 6-4 in the final.
At Wimbledon, after two years without a win on grass, she beat Pegula 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 to reach her first semi-final there, becoming only the sixth woman since 2000 to reach the last four at all four majors before turning 23. Karolina Muchova saved a match point to beat her 6-2, 1-6, 7-6 (12-10).
At the US Open, she saved two match points to beat Mirra Andreeva 2-6, 7-6 (7), 6-2 and reach her first semi-final in New York since her 2023 title. Elena Rybakina beat her 3-6, 6-4, 6-4.
Two. At the 2023 US Open, she beat Aryna Sabalenka 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 in the final. At Roland-Garros in 2025, she beat Sabalenka again, 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-4.
She had lost her first Grand Slam final, at Roland-Garros in 2022, to Iga Swiatek, 6-1, 6-3.
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She won her first title in Linz in 2019, at 15. In 2023, she won Auckland, Washington, her first WTA 1000 in Cincinnati and the US Open.
In 2024, she won Beijing and the WTA Finals, where she beat Zheng Qinwen 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (2) in the final. She added Roland-Garros in 2025 and a second Cincinnati title in 2026.
Jean-Christophe Faurel, who has worked with her for years. In August 2025, she parted ways with Matt Daly and added a biomechanics specialist to her team to work on her serve.
She previously worked with Brad Gilbert, who coached her to the 2023 US Open title, and Pere Riba. Patrick Mouratoglou spotted her when she was 10 and supported her through his Champ’Seed foundation.
Not in singles. Her career-high is No. 2, reached in June 2024. She has been world No. 1 in doubles, mostly playing with Jessica Pegula.
Coco Gauff was born on March 13, 2004, which makes her 22. Her real first name is Cori. Her father Corey played basketball at Georgia State University, and her mother Candi competed in track and field at Florida State University. She has two younger brothers, Codey and Cameron.
In Rome in May 2026, she said she had been going through off-court struggles for months. “I’m trying to be transparent but also not give the whole world my business,” she said.
She won the Roland-Garros girls’ title in 2018, aged 14. In 2019, at 15, she came through qualifying at Wimbledon, beat Venus Williams in the first round and became the youngest player to reach the round of 16 there since 1991.
In 2020, she became a voice in the movement for racial justice in the United States, with a speech in Delray Beach in which she said: “If you are choosing silence, you’re choosing the side of the oppressor.” In February 2024, Time magazine named her to its Women of the Year list.
She plays with Head racquets and wears New Balance. She is represented by Team8, Roger Federer’s management company. Forbes named her the highest-paid female athlete in 2024. Her current ranking and prize money are on her WTA profile.
She is learning French, and enjoys reading, crochet and the theatre. During Wimbledon in 2024, she said she had seen The Lion King six times. She is on Instagram as cocogauff.